Faculty, students revved up about Large Hadron Collider restart

April 6, 2015

Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØ faculty and students are primed to get back in action following the Easter restart of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s most powerful atom smasher located near Geneva, Switzerland, after a two-year hiatus. Following intensive upgrades and repairs, proton beams from the LHC once again...

International Collaboration Discovers Theoretical Boson at CERN

July 6, 2012

An international research team involving the Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØ announced Wednesday morning, July 4th that it has found the first direct evidence for a new particle that likely is the long sought-after Higgs boson, believed to endow the universe with mass. The CU-Boulder high-energy physics team, which includes 15...

Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØPhysics Faculty Part of International Team to Discover New Type of Neutrino Oscillation

July 15, 2011

As part of the international T2K collaboration team led by Japan, researchers from the T2K group at Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder have discovered indications of a new type of neutrino oscillation in an experiment in Japan. The announcement was delivered by the international T2K collaboration on Wednesday, June 15, 2011. The T2K...