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Scientists accelerate antimatter – Symmetry magazine

Scientists accelerate antimatterSymmetry magazineCollisions between electrons and positrons are especially appealing, because unlike the protons being collided at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider – where the Higgs boson was discovered in 2012—these particles aren’t made of smaller constituent parts.and more »

Yoichiro Nambu (1921–2015) – Nature.com

Nature.com Yoichiro Nambu (1921–2015)Nature.comThe Higgs boson, discovered in 2012 at CERN, Europe’s particle-physics laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland, reveals the fact that the electroweak symmetry is broken. In 1964, George Zweig and Murray Gell-Mann each independently proposed the idea of …