UMD Researchers Continue Search for New Particles, including Dark Matter Particle, with Large Hadron Collider's Second Run

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Category: Research News

Published: Friday, June 05 2015 10:18

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) started delivering physics data for the first time in 27 months. After an almost two year shutdown and several months re-commissioning, the LHC is now providing collisions to all of its experiments at the unprecedented energy of 13 TeV. This marks the start of season 2 at the LHC, opening the way to new discoveries. The LHC will now run round the clock for the next three years.

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Michael Kossin Honored for Thesis Work

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Published: Wednesday, June 03 2015 08:47

Michael Kossin, an undergraduate who works with professor Luis Orozco, has been awarded an IPST Monroe Martin Prize for Undergraduate Research in Physics for his paper, "Production of a Polarizing Millimeter-Wave Fabry-Perot Resonator.” 

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A New Theory to Explain the Higgs Mass

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Published: Monday, June 01 2015 09:54

Raman Sundrum comments on new theory to explain the higgs mass, in the lateset issue of Quanta Magazine.

Moving out of Equilibrium

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Published: Wednesday, May 27 2015 10:04

Physicists at the Joint Quantum Institute, led by Trey Porto, studied a nonequilibrium system of ultracold⁸⁷Rb atoms in a two-dimensional optical lattice. Their work was published in the journal Science.