For the first time, scientists from the CMS experiment on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN have succeeded in finding evidence for the direct decay of the Higgs boson into fermions. Previously, the Higgs particle could only be detected through its decay into bosons. "This is a major step forwards," explains Professor Vincenzo Chiochia from the University of Zurich's Physics Institute, … [Read more...]
Powering particle accelerators with lasers could be more cost- effective
According to an article in the journal Physics of Plasmas, powering particle accelerators with a collection of small lasers and not with radio-frequency waves could reduce the cost. Particle accelerators like the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Bern, Switzerland use high-power radio-frequency waves to energize particle. Accelerators are an important source for physicists to understand the … [Read more...]