UK scientists are to call for faster progress towards building a giant atom smasher. The proposed ?3bn machine will recreate conditions seen moments after the Big Bang.
Physicists propose that five dimensions of space-time can harbor a rotating, donut-shaped "black ring"--the first example of a nonspherical black hole. If we live in a world with extra, hidden dimensions--as many theorists speculate--these rings might even be created in Geneva, at the world's largest particle accelerator, now under construction.
CERN researchers are turning to "Grid Computing" to achieve their goal of a "thousand times more computing power by 2006." They are developing the distributed-computing network to help process the 10 petabytes of data likely to be generated by the Large Hadron Supercollider.
Scientists are speculating that black holes could be produced in high-energy collisions of particles in particle accelerators.
A working group charged with charting the next quarter-century of United States particle physics has called for the country to give highest priority to ‘a high-energy, high-luminosity electron-positron linear collider, wherever it is built in the world.’
A convention of 1,000 physicists at Snowmass in Colorado discussed the possibility of a 500-GeV electron-positron linear collider which they believe should be the next big supercollider.
Physicists from around the world are calling for a new linear collider to help answer questions that lie on the frontier of physics and cosmology.
Scientists at the Fermilab in Illinois, home to the world's most powerful atom smasher, announced Wednesday that data collected during the last big round of experiments into the depths of the atom is now available online.
The directors of major physics laboratories in Europe, the United States and Japan gathered this week to make plans for a new particle accelerator they all agreed would be so large, powerful and expensive that it could be built only if they all cooperated on a scale without parallel in scientific history.
Physicists at Fermilab in the US have seen the first collisions in their new series of experiments with the Tevatron, the world's highest-energy particle accelerator. They are continuing the search for the elusive but important particle known as the Higgs boson, the particle that endows others with mass.