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A tour of the Large Hadron Collider

A tour of the Large Hadron Collider

...At the heart of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) are 1,232 dipole magnets, of which this is a cross section... Read more

7 July, 2010 by Stephen Shankland

Cern taps home PCs for virtual atom smashing

...to contribute to fundamental physics research from the Large Hadron Collider. The LHC@home 2.0 platform, launched in beta, uses virtual machines on volunteers... Read more

9 August, 2011 by Tom Espiner

CERN ramps up LHC energy for Higgs boson search

...boson exists by November, after scientists crank up the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) to smash streams of particles together at an intensity of four tera... Read more

13 February, 2012 by Tom Espiner

Cern's LHC breaks beam intensity record again

...before. According to the European nuclear research facility, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) now collides beams with a luminosity of 4.67x1032cm-2s-1, breaking... Read more

26 April, 2011 by David Meyer

Cern postpones LHC upgrade as experiments continue

...research to continue. Photo credit: Maximilien Brice/Cern The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is a mammoth tool best known for its search for the Higgs... Read more

2 February, 2011 by Stephen Shankland

LHC ready for new physics discoveries

...Large Hadron Collider four months. A view inside Atlas, one of the LHC's two general-purpose experiments. For more on the experiments, take a... Read more

27 July, 2010 by Stephen Shankland
CERN drafts in cloud to handle data loads

CERN drafts in cloud to handle data loads

...carrying out scientific research in the cloud.Data from Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiments will be handled by various EU-based cloud providers over the... Read more

14 March, 2012 by Nick Heath

RSA: Use big data to find cyber-threats

...to their size and composition. For example, scientific experiments such as the LHC at CERN produce such massive datasets the experiments use globally distributed computing... Read more

29 February, 2012 by Tom Espiner

Traces of Higgs boson found at CERN

...particle. Image credit: CERN Two separate experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have detected inconclusive glimpses of the Higgs boson, CERN's director general... Read more

13 December, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Foldit yields AIDS breakthrough

A project that turns protein folding into a competitive, online game has seen gamers do work in three weeks that had stumped scientists for over a decade Read more

19 September, 2011 by Jack Clark

Cern: Higgs boson answer to come by end of 2012

...director general Rolf Heuer. Scientists at Cern using the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have said they will able to settle the existence of the Higgs... Read more

25 July, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Cern prepares for shift to 100GbE with Brocade gear

...cope with the data produced by its research. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), which is located in Cern's underground facility beneath the French-Swiss... Read more

2 December, 2010 by Jack Clark

Cern hopes for proof of extra dimensions in 2011

...which analyses the results of proton collisions inside the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), is designed to observe phenomena involving massive particles, such as the Higgs... Read more

17 November, 2010 by Ben Woods

Cern gets ready to hunt for antimatter in space

A spectrometer module that will look for dark matter and antimatter in space is set to leave Cern for lift-off at the Kennedy Space Centre on Tuesday Read more

20 August, 2010 by Tom Espiner
The Monday Twitter Photo Challenge

The Monday Twitter Photo Challenge

Every Monday, @ZDNetUK_News will tweet a link to a wilfully obscure picture of some vintage technology. Tell us what it is to win a piece of the Large Hadron Collider Read more

26 July, 2010 by ZDNet UK

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