17 March

For the first time, scientists at the Large Hadron Collider have spotted single top quark production.

The CDF and DZero experiments at Fermilab have reached new ground in their quest to find the Higgs boson, a key member of the particle zoo known as the Standard Model.

Physicists in Japan are assessing the state of the country’s research facilities in the aftermath of Friday’s major earthquake and tsunami. …As the clean-up begins, scientists are now beginning to evaluate how much damage has been caused to the country’s research infrastructure and facilities.

CERN scientists said Monday they staged their first speed-of-light particle collisions of the year at the weekend, resuming their probes into the origins of the cosmos in the centre’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC).

Two major particle physics labs are a couple of hundred kilometres south of Sendai. The earthquake struck just before a seminar to announce the first T2K neutrino results.