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Particle physicists play hunt the particle
A competition to find exotic physics in simulated data aims to improve the software that will analyse results from future accelerators
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Hard sell for particle physics?: The killing off the superconducting Supercollider sent shock waves through particle physicics. Now researchers face a dilemma: should they expect governments to give them money to answer the fundamental questions about th
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Science: Spanner in the works for particle physics
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Grand unified strategy for particle physics?
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A supercollider for Europe
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Dark doubts for cosmology: The so-called cold dark matter theory of cosmology unites particle physics, cosmology and the theory of how galaxies and clusters of galaxies formed into an elegant package. Why does this impressive theory find itself in diffic
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Science: Cosmic ‘wallpaper’ hangs across the Universe – Last month in Brighton, particle physicists and astronomers came together to discuss the areas where their two sciences come together, cosmology, high-energy astrophysics and the big bang*
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Science: Missing matter may not be missing – Last month in Brighton, particle physicists and astronomers came together to discuss the areas where their two sciences come together, cosmology, high-energy astrophysics and the big bang*
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Science: Genesis recreated – Last month in Brighton, particle physicists and astronomers came together to discuss the areas where their two sciences come together, cosmology, high-energy astrophysics and the big bang*
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Particle physics at bay
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Science: Neutrons feel a subtle quantum effect
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Light at end of the tunnel: LEP, the machine of the moment in big physics, will study the Standard Model of particle physics – It will also reveal the parts of fundamental theory that other accelerators cannot reach
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The making of a particle machine: Next week, the world’s largest particle accelerator, LEP, will be ready for action – The last weeks of preparing one of the detectors for LEP reveal what a massive international engineering operation high energy physics
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Physics at the frontier / Review of ‘Particle Physics in the Cosmos’ edited by Richard Carrigan and Peter Trower
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