Scientists may have found two different Higgs bosons

Scientists studying data from the Large Hadron Collider who announced the possible discovery of the ‘God particle’ – Higgs boson – now say they may have actually found not one, but two previously unknown particles.

The most recent release from the Atlas experiment at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) showed [...]

January 11th, 2013 | Tags: , , , , , , , , | Category: TECHNOLOGIES [latest] | Leave a comment

What is the Higgs Boson?

Scientists at the CERN research centre near Geneva on 1st Wednesday of July 2012 unveiled their latest findings in their search for the Higgs boson, a subatomic particle key to the formation of stars, planets and eventually life after the Big Bang 13.7 billion years ago. Some facts about the ‘God particle’

July 10th, 2012 | Tags: , , , , , , , , | Category: TECHNOLOGIES [latest] | Leave a comment

‘God’s particle’: Significant contribution by Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics scientists

The Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics (SINP) said here today that its scientists had made significant contributions to the development of the CMS experiments at Geneva-based CERN.

“This led to the observation of the new particle at 125.3 GeV, consistent with a Higgs Boson as predicted by the Standard Model of Particle [...]

July 10th, 2012 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , | Category: TECHNOLOGIES [latest] | Leave a comment

World’s smallest silicon wire brings quantum computers closer to reality

 

World’s thinnest silicon wire, which is just one atom tall and four atoms wide, may play a vital role in developing quantum computers in future, researchers say.

 

The wire created by a team of researchers from the University of New South Wales, Melbourne University and Purdue University has the same [...]

April 19th, 2012 | Tags: , , , , | Category: Computers, TECHNOLOGIES [latest] | Leave a comment

Satellite phone encryption ‘cracked’

Researchers in Germany claim to have for the first time cracked two encryption systems of satellite phones, a breakthrough in call deciphering which may threaten the security of such devices worldwide.

A team at Ruhr University Bochum in Germany says that the cracked encryption algorithms, known as GMR-1 and GMR-2, are actually [...]

April 19th, 2012 | Tags: , , , , , , | Category: HACKING. | One comment