The Large Hadron Collider is entering a rare quiet spell, with its proton collisions halted so engineers can prepare the ...

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Deep beneath the border of France and Switzerland, the world's most massive physics machine is sending subatomic particles smashing into each other at speeds nearing the speed of light. Physicists ...

Compact Muon Solenoid The CMS detector at CERN has gleaned important information about quark–gluon plasma. (Courtesy: CERN) The speed of sound in a quark–gluon plasma has been measured by observing ...

Scientists from the CMS collaboration at CERN have measured the speed of sound in the quark-gluon plasmas with record precision, a key step to understanding how matter behaved in the very early ...

To visit CERN is to go down a rabbit hole. This is not because to reach the organisation’s atom-smashing Large Hadron Collider (LHC), in a ring-shaped tunnel 27km in circumference below the ...