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LC Newsline

13 June 2013

Press release: Next-generation particle accelerator is ready for construction
The Global Design Effort completes its mandate in style and substance
Worldwide video

CERN Bulletin

17 June 2013

New Experiment to Gain Unparalleled Insight into Antimatter
Together in the Same Direction
From CERN to Space - and Back
Content, Clarity and Charisma

DESY inForm

June 2013

Milestone for Europe's new X-ray laser
Setting the course for European particle physics
Test beam booked out
Hiking like an electron

CERN Courier

June 2013

Chasing new physics with electroweak penguins
Nuclotron tests out stochastic cooling in Dubna
Towards a Higgs boson: first steps in an incredible journey
Training young physicists: a 20-year success story

symmetry magazine

Former physicist nurtures innovation
Winner: Cinderella's convertible carriage
The ILC through two lenses
A 10-minute lesson in supersymmetry

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9 - 15 June 2013

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Quantum Diaries

Your summer travel options

June 14, 2013

Now that summer is fully here, are you feeling that old wanderlust, the desire to hit the open road? Well then, there are a lot of interesting places to go on the physics conference circuit between now and Labor Day. There are many fabulous locations on the menu, and who knows, you might get to [...]

Investir dans la science vaut son pesant d’or

June 10, 2013

Les dirigeant-e-s politiques doivent faire des choix difficiles quant il s’agit de dépenser l’argent public. Investir dans la science est pourtant un excellent placement non seulement à long terme, mais aussi pour des retombées immédiates. Bien sûr, si vous demandez ce que le boson de Higgs mettra dans l’assiette de l’humanité, la réponse est simple: [...]

Investing in science is worth every penny

June 10, 2013

Politicians are faced with hard choices. How should they spend public money? Investing in science is an excellent choice not only for the long-term but also for immediate returns. Of course, if you are asking what will the Higgs boson put on humanity’s plate, the answer is easy: nobody knows. When the finance minister asked [...]

Questioning the existence of God and the God Particle

June 7, 2013

Does God exist? This is one of the oldest questions in philosophy and is still much debated. The debate on the God particle is much more recent but searching for it has cost a large fortune and inspired people’s careers. But before we can answer the questions implied in the title, we have to decide [...]

Petite chronique d’un prof au CERN (V)

June 5, 2013

À l’occasion de l’ouverture de l’appel à candidature 2013 de “Sciences à l’Ecole” pour l’accueil d’enseignants français au CERN durant une semaine, nous publions ces jours-ci le journal quotidien plein d’humour de Jocelyn Etienne qui a suivi ce programme l’année dernière, au mois de novembre dernier. La visite s’accélère ! Jeudi 08 novembre 2012 [...]

The Definite Article Problem

June 4, 2013

A Little Bit of the Higgs Boson for Everyone Hi All, This post is long overdue but nonetheless I am thrilled to finally write it. We have discovered the a some ??? Higgs boson, and it is precisely my trouble writing this very sentence that inspires a new post. CERN‘s press office has keenly presented [...]

Disability and diversity at work

May 31, 2013

National diversity has always been CERN‘s forte. With people coming from 99 different nationalities, CERN is a unique working place. However CERN recently realised that much more could be done to welcome not only people from all over the world but also people of different genders, ages, abilities, sexual orientation and ethnic origin. This is [...]

Handicap et diversité au travail

May 31, 2013

La diversité nationale a toujours été un point fort du CERN. Avec des gens venant de 99 nationalités différentes, le CERN est un lieu de travail unique. Cependant, le CERN s’est récemment rendu compte que beaucoup plus pourrait être fait pour accueillir non seulement des gens de partout dans le monde, mais aussi des gens [...]

May 29, 2013

Hi! Since I’m new on Quantum Diaries, let me first introduce myself. I’m Rob, a Belgian Ph.D. student at CERN. Unlike most other physicists here, I am doing purely theoretical work, the kind of work for which one doesn’t need CERN’s Large Hadron Collider or any other equipment, except perhaps for its blackboards. The nice thing about being a theoretical physicist at [...]

Petite chronique d’un prof au CERN (IV)

May 29, 2013

À l’occasion de l’ouverture de l’appel à candidature 2013 de “Sciences à l’Ecole” pour l’accueil d’enseignants français au CERN durant une semaine, nous publions ces jours-ci le journal quotidien plein d’humour de Jocelyn Etienne qui a suivi ce programme l’année dernière, au mois de novembre dernier. Dans les cavernes des géants Mercredi 07 novembre [...]

Run like a proton at Fermilab’s new playground

May 24, 2013

This Fermilab press release came out today. It’s one thing for kids to try to envision particles zipping around underground when learning about the science at Fermilab. It’s another thing entirely for them to pretend to be particles charging along an accelerator path, revealing new physics as they fly by. This week the Fermilab Education [...]

Place your bets: 25 or 50?

May 23, 2013

Note to readers: this is my best attempt to describe some issues in accelerator operations; I welcome comments from people more expert than me if you think I don’t have things quite right. The operators of the Large Hadron Collider seek to collide as many protons as possible. The experimenters who study these collisions seek [...]

Another Kind of Science

May 23, 2013

I’ve been away from blogging for quite some time – mainly to finish a book I was working on. The book is unrelated to particle physics, but follows a course I teach at Harvard, called Primitive Navigation. We explore navigational techniques used by cultures like the Polynesians and Norse, in addition to looking at environmental [...]

IceCube probable astrophysical events

May 20, 2013

Okay, so there hasn’t been an official IceCube press release on this, not until the paper finishes collaboration review and is posted on the Arxiv, but there have been some talks showing neutrino events observed by IceCube which are almost certainly astrophysical in origin. Short version, neutrino astronomy is now a real thing. We are [...]

Knowledge and the Higgs Boson

May 17, 2013

This essay makes a point that is only implicit in most of my other essays–namely that scientists are arro—oops that is for another post. The point here is that science is defined not by how it goes about acquiring knowledge but rather by how it defines knowledge. The underlying claim is that the definitions of [...]