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CERN on Monday ran for the last time the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s largest particle accelerator, housed underground near the France-Switzerland border near Geneva, which ran since May this year. It said the number of collisions recorded by the ATLAS and CMS detectors during the proton run was 60 percent higher than expected though the results of 2012 ...

Pune-based physicist Thanu Padmanabhan propounded the theory that dark energy in cosmology is the root cause of accelerated expansion of the universe and threw a challenge to peers to prove him wrong giving them a decade in 2006. Now that the ten years are over, research could not prove him wrong and he won the challenge. A renowned scientist from ...

Almost two years after Pakistan, India too joined CERN as an associate member of the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN), which houses the world’s largest nuclear and particle physics laboratory in the world and known for operating the Large Hadron Collider, that has claimed to have found the elusive Higgs Boson in 2012 and won the Nobel the next ...

Based on galactoseismology, Indian origin astronomer Sukanya Chakrabarti, former post-doc at Berkeley and her mentor Leo Blitz have found three bright pulsating stars on the periphery of the Milky Way galaxy which could be beacons from a dwarf, dark matter galaxy. Using supercomputer simulation of the collision of a dwarf and dark-matter galaxy over the course of the last billion ...

Researchers from the University of California found out that the dark matter, believed to mysterious and exotic, is not very different from subatomic particles known to science since the 1930s. They are similar to pions, which bind atomic nuclei together. they said. Dark matter makes up 85% of the mass of the universe and unlike stars and galaxies, it never ...

CERN achieved a breakthrough on Wednesday night when protons collided in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the record-breaking energy of 13 TeV for the first time, paving the way for the next round in early June in search of the dark matter or God’s particle. The set-up of the collimators, which absorb stray particles were adjusted in colliding-beam conditions ...

Two years after the shutdown of its epoch-making Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the God Particle hunt by CERN resumed on Sunday at 10:41 AM local time. The physics particle search tunnel was closed for refurbishment after it found the first instance of Higgs Boson particle, known as God’s Particle in popular parlance in 2012. With a proton beam back in ...

Using observations from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers have found that dark matter does not slow down when colliding with itself, meaning it interacts with itself less than previously thought. This finding narrows down the options for what this mysterious substance might be. “Dark matter is an enigma we have long sought to unravel. With the ...

CERN, which was able to produce epoch-making anti-matter or God’s Particle will resume its operations with its new refurbished Large Hadron Collider (LHC) on Monday, March 23, 2015 after a gap of over two years for maintenance. The renovated LHC will now double its accelerator for running at a collision energy of 13 TeV, nearly double its last time energy ...

CERN, the particle research giant in Geneva that had shut down in 2013 its epoch-making Large Hadron Collider which was able to produce the dark matter or God’s Particle, has announced new and reburbished LHC now. For almost three years the LHC has gone through maintenace with hundreds of engineers and technicians working on consolidating and strengthening the accelerator in ...