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The Mathematical Structure of Particle Collisions Comes Into View

By Charlie Wood
August 20, 2020
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Physicists have identified an algebraic structure underlying the messy mathematics of particle collisions. Some hope it will lead to a more elegant theory of the natural world.

Lines representing paths of particles fan out from a point and pass through a series of detectors.
Abstractions blog

Growing Anomalies at the Large Hadron Collider Raise Hopes

By Charlie Wood
May 26, 2020
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Collider physicists report that several measurements of particles called B mesons deviate from predictions. Alone, each oddity looks like a fluke, but their collective drift is more suggestive.

Carlo Rubbia giving a lecture with a colorful PowerPoint slide on the screen behind him.
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A Call for Courage as Physicists Confront Collider Dilemma

By Thomas Lewton
August 7, 2019
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Carlo Rubbia, leader of the bold collider experiment that in 1983 discovered the W and Z bosons, thinks particle physicists should now smash muons together in an innovative “Higgs factory.”

Sau Lan Wu at CERN, 2018
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Three Major Physics Discoveries and Counting

By Joshua Roebke
July 18, 2018
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Sau Lan Wu spent decades working to establish the Standard Model of particle physics. Now she’s searching for what lies beyond it.

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How the Hidden Higgs Could Reveal Our Universe’s Dark Sector

By Bob Henderson
September 26, 2017
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The universe has not cooperated with physicists’ hopes. In desperation, many are looking for new ways to search for surprises at the Large Hadron Collider.

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Abstractions blog

The Math That’s Too Difficult for Physics

By Kevin Hartnett
November 18, 2016
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How do physicists reconstruct what really happened in a particle collision? Through calculations that are so challenging that, in some cases, they simply can’t be done. Yet.

Signatories of a bet placed in 2011.
Abstractions blog

Supersymmetry Bet Settled With Cognac

By Natalie Wolchover
August 22, 2016
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The absence of supersymmetry particles at the Large Hadron Collider has settled a 16-year-old bet among physicists.

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What No New Particles Means for Physics

By Natalie Wolchover
August 9, 2016
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Physicists are confronting their “nightmare scenario.” What does the absence of new particles suggest about how nature works?

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A New Theory to Explain the Higgs Mass

By Natalie Wolchover
May 27, 2015
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Three physicists have proposed a new solution to one of the deepest mysteries in particle physics: why the Higgs boson has such a tiny mass.


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