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News 2011/12
Highly succesful heavy-ion run
2012-01-23
The second heavy ion run with lead+lead collisions at E=2.76 TeV per nucleon pair took place in november -december 2011 at the LHC at CERN.
News in the hunt for the Higgs particle
2011-12-13
There is a live link from CERN, where researchers, including researchers from NBI, are taking part in the hunt for the Higgs particle. For 45 years they have been looking for this particle, which according to the...
We wish you a merry Higgsmass - perhaps?
2011-12-13
In a seminar held at CERN today, the ATLAS and CMS experiments presented the status of their searches for the Standard Model Higgs boson. Their results are based on the analysis of considerably more data than those presented at the...
The ATLAS detector build in Lego
2011-11-23
The newest contribution to the Discovery Center family is a 1:50 scale model of the ATLAS detector, build in Lego. It gives a unique chance for showing the public a fun and alternative way.
LHC starts heavy ion runs in november
2011-10-27
On November 14 the LHC will start its second heavy ion run, where once again lead-ions will be collided at the highest energies available. The goal is to deliver 5 times the amount of data delivered during last years.
LHC has passed 5 fb^-1
2011-10-25
LHC has passed the legendary 5 fb-1 data amount mark! It was originally believed that only 1 fb-1 was possible with the LHC, and if everything went perfect 3 fb-1 could be obtainable.
Discovery scientists P.H. Damgaard and A. Tranberg lecture on Danish National TV
2011-10-17
The Danish National TV station 'DR2' runs a series of programs with lectures for the public. As part of this, a whole session was dedicated to Albert Einstein and his greatest scientific discovies.
Emil Bjerrum-Bohr becomes member of the Young Academy
2011-09-27
The Young Academy is a new independent platform for young scientists in all branches of sciences and a newly formed academic institution in Denmark under The Royal Academy of Sciences and Letters.
Particle faster than light
2011-09-23
Brand new data from CERN indicates a particle that moves faster than the speed of light. It breaks with everything that physicists have been relying on since Einstein put forward the theory of relativity.
Emil Bjerrum-Bohr receives prestigious Junior Group Leader grant from the Lundbeck Foundation
2011-08-26
Discovery Center scientist Emil Bjerrum-Bohr has been awarded 10 million kroner by the Lundbeck Foundation to establish his own research group at the Discovery Center and the NBIA.
Fencing in the Higgs
2011-08-25
The elusive Higgs particle is running out of places to hide. The Higgs is the missing link in the Standard Model for particle physics, namely the mechanism that provides mass to all the other particles in the world.
ESS Science Symposia launched at the Niels Bohr International Academy in Copenhagen
2011-07-18
The first ESS Science Symposium at Niels Bohr International Academy (NBIA) was held in Copenhagen in late June, an NBIA conference on ESS research that initiates a series of annual workshops...
New results about the primordial universe from the CERN experiments
2011-05-25
The three LHC-experiments (ALICE, ATLAS and CMS), which study lead-collisions have presented their latest results at the international Quark Matter 2011 conference, held in Annecy in France with over 750 participants...
The LHC recovers after technical stop
2011-05-19
After setting an intensity world record of 4.67 x 1032cm-2s-1, the Large Hadron Collider has been down for a short technical stop.
Discovery strongly represented at the Quark Matter conference
2011-05-19
The Quark Matter conference will take place in Annecy, France in the coming week. QM is the premier conference in the community of physicists studying ultra-relativistic heavy ion collisions.
Christian Holm Christensen receives Steno grant for CERN-research
2011-05-19
Particle physicist Christian Holm Christensen, postdoc in the ALICE Group within the Discovery Center at NBI, has received a grant of 3½ million kroner to research lead ion collisions at CERN.
Discovery ph.d. school is announced
2011-05-19
The Discovery center announces a ph.d. school on Particle Physics Phenomenology on October 3-7, 2011. The main lecturer at the course will be Prof. Torbjörn...
LHC performs above and beyond expectations
2011-05-10
The last few weeks have seen a many-doubling of the amount of data from the LHC. The amount of data taken in two days now surpass the full 2010 dataset.
A nail in the coffin of supersymmetry?
2011-05-10
Physics Letters B just accepted a paper by the ATLAS collaboration, showing that if supersymmetry exists and provides for long-lived particles carrying the strong nuclear force, then these are very heavy.
Evidence for parity asymmetry
2011-04-05
The temperature fluctuations of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) are supposed to be distributed randomly in both magnitude and phase, following to the simplest model of inflation.
CERN continues the hunt for the Higgs
2011-01-31
It has just been decided that CERN will run for the next two years without a break. The Higgs could be within reach sooner than previously thought so all researchers are keen to continue the experiments in the LHC accelerator.