Tevatron

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  • Megascience Blues: What the Death of America’s Biggest Particle Accelerator Means

    The story of Fermilab is a story about keeping calm and collected on the vanguard of knowledge. Yeah, Robert Wilson, the lab’s founding director, was an impassioned, divisive figure, wrangling with the public over where to build the National...

  • The Biggest Physics Discovery In 50 Years?

    It's a bump, a weird bump in collision data at Fermilab's "soon-to-be shuttered":http://motherboard.tv/2011/1/11/goodbye-tevatron-the-u-s-s-largest-particle-accelerator Tevatron collider. Weird bumps happen; it might not mean anything. But, as it...

  • Fermilab's Ghost in the Machine

    Fermilab's Tevatron collider is picking up something unexplainable. Particles aren't behaving like they should. It has to do with the top quark, one of the fundamental particles. It sounds simplistic in a way, but when particles collide and shoot...

  • Fermilab Closes In On the Higgs Boson

    Researchers at Fermilab's Tevatron particle collider are "talking big":http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/breaking/2011/03/14/tevatron-experiments-report-new-higgs-search-results/ this week as they prepare to present new measurements narrowing down even...

  • In 1987, Ronald Reagan Was the Higgs Boson's Best Friend

    I know, I know: if there's one thing lefty bloggers love pointing out, it's the disconnect between the current right-wing Ronald Reagan fantasy and the tax-raising, big-spending pragmatic reality. Well, here's a good one. If you're under a certain age...