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Correlation between outstanding hints in experimental particle physics
The 115 GeV ATLAS Higgs with enhanced diphoton decays has gone away but there are several other recent tantalizing hints relevant for particle physics, namely
CoGeNT's 7-8 GeV dark matter particle ...
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What are the main differences between $p p$ and $p \bar p$ colliders
I know that it is somehow related to the parton distribution functions, allowing specific reactions with gluons instead of quarks and anti-quarks, but I would really appreciate more detailed answers !
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Particle colliders: why do they need an accelerator chain
Particle colliders like the LHC or the Tevatron use a complex accelerator chain to have particles at a given energy before being accelerated.
For example:
The CERN accelerator complex to inject in ...
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Production of antiproton at the Tevatron
The Tevatron is a proton-antiproton collider; it collides a beam of protons against a beam of antiproton.
I can understand how we obtain the protons, but for the antiprotons ? How are they produced ?
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