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AMS experiment measures antimatter excess in space
The international team running the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) today announced the first results in its search for dark matter
ATRAP: Never a dull moment for the antiproton
The ATRAP experiment presents most precise measurement yet of the antiproton magnetic moment
Still making tracks: Eighty years of the positron
Eighty years ago today, Physical Review published a paper by Carl Anderson announcing the discovery of the positron – the electron’s antiparticle
New results indicate that new particle is a Higgs boson
With two and a half times more data analysed than in July last year, ATLAS and CMS find that the new particle looks more and more like a Higgs boson
The Standard Model, set in stone
A standing stone outside the CERN Control Centre neatly sums up our understanding of the universe
Explain it in 60 seconds: spin
Objects as large as a planet or as small as a photon can have the property of spin. Spin is also the reason we can watch movies in 3D.
A question of spin for the new boson
Physicists speaking today at the Moriond conference say that the new particle discovered at CERN last year is looking more and more like a Higgs boson
W boson published 30 years ago
On 24 February 1983 the journal Physics Letters B published a paper by the UA1 collaboration describing the discovery of the W boson
Fat antiatoms, laser beams and matter-antimatter asymmetry
An international team of collaborators are manipulating 'fat' antiatoms at the AEgIS experiment at CERN's Antiproton Decelerator
Free the quarks: Calculating the strong force
Forty years ago quarks gained their freedom – at least theoretically – and the modern theory of the strong interaction began to emerge