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View of the LHCb detector

Cambridge physicists announce results that boost evidence for new fundamental physics

19 Oct 2021

Results announced by the LHCb experiment at CERN have revealed further hints for phenomena that cannot be explained by our current theory of...

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Nobel Prize in Physics awarded for theory behind Higgs boson

08 Oct 2013

Today’s announcement celebrates the men who triggered the hunt for the Higgs particle, finally discovered last year with help from the ATLAS project...

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Large Hadron ‘insider’

14 Jun 2013

In a recent talk for TEDx, theoretical physicist Professor Ben Allanach explored the research he undertook during the two years he spent working on...

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Primary interaction

Supersymmetry squeezed as LHC spots ultra rare particle decay

13 Nov 2012

Cambridge scientists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, near Geneva, have spotted one of the rarest particle decays ever seen in nature.

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The Large Hadron Collider/ATLAS at CERN

World’s largest experiment starts today

08 Sep 2008

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is being switched on today, marking one of the most important events in modern science.

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