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Thirty years of the Z boson

Thirty years ago this week physicists at CERN announced that they had directly observed the Z boson

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31 May, 2013
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31 May, 2013

The basics of the Higgs boson

In this animated lesson for TED-Ed, CERN physicists David Barney and Steven Goldfarb use the Socratic method to explain the Higgs boson

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16 May, 2013
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16 May, 2013

The basics of a boson

In this animated lesson for TED-Ed, CERN physicists David Barney and Steven Goldfarb use the Socratic method to explain the Higgs boson

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15 May, 2013
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15 May, 2013

The birth of a Higgs boson

Physicists from the ATLAS and CMS collaborations explain how they came to identify the new particle of 2012 as "a Higgs boson"

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07 May, 2013
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07 May, 2013

ALPHA: Novel investigation of gravity and antimatter

The ALPHA collaboration has published a paper describing the first direct analysis of how antimatter is affected by gravity

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30 April, 2013

LHCb experiment observes new matter-antimatter difference

The LHCb collaboration has made the first observation of matter-antimatter asymmetry in the decays the B<sup>0</sup><sub>s</sub>

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24 April, 2013

Find a Higgs boson in LHC public data

LHC experiments release a scattering of Higgs-candidate data to the public

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12 April, 2013
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12 April, 2013

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

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03 April, 2013

ATRAP: Never a dull moment for the antiproton

The ATRAP experiment presents most precise measurement yet of the antiproton magnetic moment

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25 March, 2013