Scientists at the CERN laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland say they are encouraged by new data suggesting their Large Hadron Collider, the world’s most powerful atom-smasher, is one step closer to finding an elusive sub-atomic particle known as the Higgs boson. The so-called “God particle” was the object of a three-decades-long search by particle physicists at [...]
Tag: Fermilab
December 16, 2011
September 30, 2011
Tevatron collider falls silent today after 26 years of smash hits
At 8pm BST today in prairie land just outside Chicago, a feat that is unlikely to be repeated in my lifetime will occur for the last time: man-made collisions of high-energy protons and anti-protons. The final collisions at Fermilab’s Tevatron collider bring to an end an odyssey that began in Bob Wilson’s (not the Arsenal [...]