Symmetry between up and down quarks is more broken than expected
Wojciech Brylinski was analyzing data from the NA61/SHINE collaboration at CERN for his thesis when he noticed an unexpected ...
Physicists Found the Ghost Haunting the World’s Most Famous Particle Accelerator
CERN’s Super Proton Synchrotron will turn 50 in 2026—and it has a resonant “ghost.” Using mathematics, physicists measured ...
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How it works (IMAGE)
A proton (far left) from the Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) accelerator at CERN impinges on carbon nuclei (small gray spheres). This produces a shower of various elementary particles, including a ...
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Manchester scientists contribute to world first breakthrough at CERN
The test, using the Super Proton Synchrotron at CERN, showed that bunches of protons can be tilted, which increases the bunches’ surface area. This is important because it allows scientists to ...