The Sciences
Large Hadron Collider: The Discovery Machine
A global collaboration of scientists is preparing to start up the greatest particle physics experiment in history
Special Report
The Large Hadron Collider: Countdown
On September 10, the world's biggest science experiment is set to come online. Here's how the LHC will search for the Higgs boson, dark matter and supersymmetry
The Sciences
The Coming Revolutions in Particle Physics
The current Standard Model of particle physics begins to unravel when probed much beyond the range of current particle accelerators. So no matter what the Large Hadron Collider finds, it is going to take physics into new territory
How the Large Hadron Collider Might Change the Web
The LHC Computing Grid may teach the Internet how to quietly handle reams of information
What Happens to Particle Accelerators After They Are Shut Down?
Radioactivity limits the potential for recycling, except for one infamous particle smasher that never saw the light of day
How U.S. Researchers Are Making the Switch to the Large Hadron Collider
Remote operations means the move to Geneva is not always mandatory
As LHC Draws Nigh, Nobelists Outline Dreams--And Nightmares
Run-up to activation of world's biggest science experiment later this summer
The Large Hadron Collider Goes to Work
Nobel Prize-winning physicist Frank Wilczek and Scientific American editor George Musser talk about the Large Hadron Collider, the most powerful particle accelerator ever built, which went online this week. Plus, we'll test your knowledge about some recent science in the news. Web sites mentioned in this episode include www.frankwilczek.com; www.youtube.com/watch?v=j50ZssEojtM; http://www.sciam.com/report.cfm?id=lhc-countdown
Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is live--And so are we
The particle-smashing Large Hadron Collider(LHC) is up and running, and we're still here.
"We've got a beam on the LHC," project leader Lyn Evans told his colleagues to applause after the machine finished coaxing a beam of protons around the 17-mile (27-kilometer) tunnel at 10:28 a.m.
The Mysteries of Mass
Physicists are hunting for an elusive particle that would reveal the presence of a new kind of field that permeates all of reality. Finding that Higgs field will give us a more complete understanding about how the universe works
Fermilab says: "Hey wait, we're in the Higgs hunt, too!"
It looks like the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) may have some competition in its search for the much-anticipated Higgs boson, the source of mass.
Yesterday CERN, the European particle physics lab, announced that on September 10 it would begin shooting protons around the full 27 kilometers (17 miles) of the circular LHC—the most powerful particle accelerator ever built—building up to collisions with a second, opposing beam in subsequent months.
Building the Next Generation Collider
To further investigate the intricacies of high-energy particle physics, researchers must construct a more powerful electron-positron collider
Searching for an Elusive Particle, Physicists Take a Shot in the Dark
Experimenters team up in the search for an invisible, hypothetical particle
The First Few Microseconds
In recent experiments, physicists have replicated conditions of the infant universe--with startling results
Matter-Antimatter Split Hints at Physics Breakdown
What's the matter with antimatter? New data may hold the answer.
Large Hadron Collider countdown going strong
CERN loves the smell of protons in the morning. Last Friday the European particle physics lab began testing the system for injecting a proton beam into the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), which if you haven't heard by now is a giant particle accelerator 27 kilometers (17 miles) in circumference.
Higgs Won't Fly
CERN declines a massive opportunity to find the Higgs particle
Uncovering Supersymmetry
A strange,elusive phenomenon called supersymmetry was conceived for elementary particle physics--but has come to light in nuclei of platinum and gold
A Unified Physics by 2050?
Experiments at CERN and elsewhere should let us complete the Standard Model of particle physics, but a unified theory of all forces will probably require radically new ideas.
