SU physicists first to observe rare particles produced at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN
Tuesday, March 29, 2011 - 12:20
in Physics & Chemistry
Shortly after experiments on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the CERN laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland began yielding scientific data last fall, a group of scientists led by a Syracuse University physicist became the first to observe the decays of a rare particle that was present right after the Big Bang. By studying this particle, scientists hope to solve the mystery of why the universe evolved with more matter than antimatter...