The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has been fired up again after a three year break for maintenance and upgrades – with the first beam sent around the tunnel
Firing up the nearly 17 mile-long LHC under Switzerland is a complex process, requiring everything to work like an orchestra , especially after the extended shut down due to Covid-19.
In a statement, CERN, which is based in Geneva, said it will not engage in new collaborations with the Russian Federation and its institutions until further notice .
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2 experiments defy physics rule book
Tiny particles called muons not acting as scientists expected By SETH BORENSTEIN, Associated Press
Published: April 13, 2021, 6:05am
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3 Photos Nikolai Bondar works on the LHCb Muon system at the European Organization for Nuclear Research Large Hadron Collider facility outside of Geneva in 2018. (Maximilien Brice, Julien Marius Ordan/CERN) Photo Gallery
Preliminary results from two experiments suggest something could be wrong with the basic way physicists think the universe works, a prospect that has the field of particle physics both baffled and thrilled.
Tiny particles called muons aren’t quite doing what is expected of them in two different long-running experiments in the United States and Europe. The confounding results – if proven right – reveal major problems with the rule book physicists use to describe and understand how the universe works at the subatomic level.