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16 Nov 2011
This week's Hadron Collider Physics Symposium (HCP2011) in Paris is the first opportunity for the LHC experiments, ATLAS, CMS and LHCb to present new results following the end of the LHC's 2011 proton run. For the fourth large LHC collaboration, ALICE, 2011 is just getting underway with the LHC embarking on a four-week lead-ion run.
Hadron Collider Physics Symposium (HCP2011)
Highlights presented at HCP2011 include the first Higgs search result that combines data from ATLAS and CMS. This analysis includes data collected up to August, and it underlines the conclusions that were presented that month: the Standard Model Higgs boson is running out of places to hide. If it exists, it will either be found or definitively ruled out during the course of next year's LHC run. Finding this long sought particle would be a triumph for the LHC, ruling it out would herald major change in the way we view our universe at the microscopic level.
Large Hadron Collider (LHC)
Another highlight comes from LHCb, which has compared the decays of charm particles with those of their antimatter counterparts. LHCb can measure these decays to greater precision than any previous experiment.
Note:
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More information:
Bulletin: Charming surprise: http://cdsweb.cern.ch/journal/CERNBulletin/2011/46/News%20Articles/1398216?ln=de
LHCb public web page: http://lhcb-public.web.cern.ch/lhcb-public/
Hadron Collider Physics Symposium: http://hcp2011.lpnhe.in2p3.fr/
Images, Text, Credit: CERN / HCP2011.
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