The Higgs boson is being eagerly sought by particle physicists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN because it would explain how elementary particles get their mass, a process called spontaneous electroweak symmetry breaking. The discovery of a new phenomenon, maybe the Higgs boson, at the LHC at around 125 GeV could validate this concept, […]
The Higgs and the ILC
Singalong tutorial
After all of this week’s news, press releases, blog posts, backgrounders and newspaper stories here’s more about the Higgs – catchy, rhythmic and full of clever lyrics. If you think you’ve still not grasped the Higgs mechanism this song will stick in your head! It’s “The Particle Physicists’ Song” (based on “The Hippopotamus Song” by […]
A small part of the team that made it all happen
Surrounded by cameras and showing a variety of emotions – delighted, touched, excited, shy, proud, almost overwhelmed – the central theorists, CERN management and the spokespeople of the experiments get together for a group picture after yesterday’s press conference. Front row, left to right: theorist Francois Englert, theorist Peter Higgs, ATLAS spokeswoman Fabiola Gianotti, CERN […]
Students hunt Higgs too
Young researchers analysing real high-energy collisions from the LHC at CERN. From 27 February to 24 March, about 8000 high school students in 31 countries come to one of about 120 nearby universities or research centres for one day in order to unravel the mysteries of particle physics. Lectures from active scientists give insight in […]
Japanese civil engineers dig deep in Europe
A contribution from the Global Design Effort's civil engineering team
Ten members from the Japanese Society for Civil Engineering’s committee for civil works for future ILC facilities came to Europe in February to look at current civil engineering projects like CERN’s LINAC4 and the European XFEL in Hamburg and to discuss administrative challenges. By the end of March next year, the committee will publish draft […]
Japanese civil engineers visit DESY and CERN
A delegation from the Japanese Society of Civil Engineering visited the European labs CERN and DESY this month to learn about how the laboratories run their projects. They are pictured here about to enter the tunnel under construction for the European XFEL. Read more about the visit in a future issue of ILC NewsLine.
From CERN Courier: Council solicits opinion to chart the future of European particle physics
December events and challenges ahead
Finally – finally we start to see results from CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) that can provide guidance towards a linear collider implementation. It is too early to be conclusive, and more data is definitely needed, but we can be optimistic and excited about 2012. The LHC experiments are zooming in on a low energy […]
From CERN: ATLAS and CMS experiments present Higgs search status
13 December 2011: In a seminar held at CERN today, the ATLAS and CMS3 experiments presented the status of their searches for the Standard Model Higgs boson.