Tag: Large Hadron Collider

  • Science & Tech

    They ponder the universe

    A Harvard research summer at CERN in Switzerland can lead to hard work, sightseeing, and, for some, a lifetime in physics.

    16 minutes
  • Science & Tech

    Back into the dark

    Harvard physicists look toward new frontiers as they anticipate the restart of the Large Hadron Collider and their ATLAS experiment in spring 2015.

    11 minutes
  • Science & Tech

    Six decades of science as diplomacy

    This month, the Harvard Physics Department and swissnex Boston, a cultural and technological exchange effort by the Swiss consulate, are sponsoring a photo exhibit that focuses on the people of CERN — laughing, napping, and thinking — and the sometimes ordinary-looking places where they unearth the extraordinary.

    3 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    Working toward the Higgs

    François Englert, winner of the Nobel Prize for his work on the Higgs boson, will deliver the David M. Lee Historical Lecture in Physics on April 17 at 8 p.m.

    3 minutes
  • Science & Tech

    Explaining the Higgs

    A Q&A with science Professor Lisa Randall, author of a new book explaining the significance of the Higgs boson, and why its discovery matters.

    6 minutes
  • Science & Tech

    Helping hunt for the Higgs

    For decades, it has been the holy grail of particle physics, an elusive subatomic particle that offered the tantalizing possibility of explaining how much of the universe works. Billions of dollars have been spent in the search for it. Thousands of researchers — including dozens from Harvard — have conducted trillions of experiments as part…

    6 minutes
  • Arts & Culture

    Scaling up, and down

    Harvard physicist Lisa Randall helped to develop an offbeat new show at the Carpenter Center that explores the concept of size, through scientific and artistic lenses

    5 minutes
  • Science & Tech

    A line on string theory

    Harvard physicist Cumrun Vafa tells scientists at the Large Hadron Collider that the discovery of a predicted, long-lived particle during research there would be the first experimental confirmation of string theory.

    12 minutes