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Physics beyond the imaginable

09/03/24

Sarah Charley

The CMS experiment is developing a new type of trigger that looks for anomalies.

10/01/09

Ski champion's wish comes true at CERN

She could take her pick of extreme adventures—rock climbing, skydiving, trekking through some exotic wilderness. The Swiss TV show Sportpanorama gave Dominique Gisin, winner of two International Ski Federation World Cup downhill victories in 2009, the chance to do anything she'd like.

10/01/09

Grad students follow the data

Worried about getting the experimental data they need to finish their PhDs, about two dozen graduate students have left the long-delayed Large Hadron Collider for experiments at the Fermilab Tevatron. Most of them say they won't be gone for long.

10/01/09

Shrinking the cost of zapping cancer

Dejan Trbojevic's work on one of the world's largest particle accelerators helped him think small.

10/01/09

Cleaner living through electrons

Studies show that blasts of electrons from a particle accelerator are an effective way to clean up dirty water, nasty sewage sludge, and polluted gases from smokestacks. Now researchers need to make the technology more compact and reliable.

10/01/09

Science Express pulls a carload of particle physics

When designers laid out their vision for an educational train called the Science Express, they almost left particle physics standing on the platform.

10/01/09

Crashing the size barrier

Like surfers on monster waves, electrons can ride waves of plasma to very high energies in a very short distance. Scientists have proven that plasma acceleration works.

08/01/09

Weak neutral current

The Gargamelle collaboration at the European laboratory CERN began operating its bubble chamber in the early 1970s, shooting neutrinos through 12,000 liters of Freon, a heavy liquid.

08/01/09

Superconducting technology, Chicago style

Fermilab is cooking up a hot technology—and the serving is ultracold. The laboratory is stepping up efforts to develop and test superconducting radio-frequency cavities, a key technology for the next generation of particle accelerators and the future of particle physics.

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