Proton-smasher’s awaited flood of data creates big job for SMU researchers
Stroynowski with Large Hadron Collider model Book a live interview To book a live or taped interview with Ryszard Stroynowski in the SMU News Broadcast Studio call SMU News at 214-768-7650 or email...
View ArticleScience morphs into science fiction in “Angels & Demons”
“Antimatter” is one of the big stars in the new Ron Howard film “Angels & Demons.” After seeing the movie, people may wonder how much of the science in the film is actually real. SMU Physics...
View ArticleBefore God particle, scientists must learn soul of new machine
Large Hadron Collider Book a live interview To book a live or taped interview with Ryszard Stroynowski in the SMU News Broadcast Studio call SMU News at 214-768-7650 or email news@smu.edu. Related...
View ArticleTheoretical universe: Olness to present at DESY premier research center
Fredrick Olness, a professor in SMU’s Physics Department, has been named the inaugural lecturer in a program launched by the DESY laboratory, Germany’s premier research center for particle physics....
View ArticleSMU physicists at CERN find hints of long sought after Higgs boson — dubbed...
Subatomic particle can explain why matter has mass In a giant game of hide and seek, physicists say there are indications they finally may have found evidence of the long sought after fundamental...
View ArticleObserved! SMU’s LHC physicists confirm new particle; Higgs ‘God particle’...
Physicists from SMU and around the globe were euphoric Wednesday with the revelation that a new particle consistent with the Higgs boson “God particle” has been observed. Described as a great triumph...
View ArticleSMU physicists celebrate Nobel Prize for discovery of Higgs boson “god particle”
SMU joins nearly 2,000 physicists from U.S. institutions — including 89 U.S. universities and seven U.S. DOE labs — that participate in discovery experiments Book a live interview To book a live or...
View ArticlePhysicists tune Large Hadron Collider to find “sweet spot” in high-energy...
New launch of the world’s most powerful particle accelerator is the most stringent test yet of our accepted theories of how subatomic particles work and interact. Start up of the world’s largest...
View Article1st proton collisions at the world’s largest science experiment expected to...
“No significant signs of new physics with the present data yet but it takes only one significant deviation in the data to change everything.” — Albert De Roeck, CERN First collisions of protons at the...
View ArticleSMU 2015 research efforts broadly noted in a variety of ways for...
SMU scientists and their research have a global reach that is frequently noted, beyond peer publications and media mentions. More SMU Research news California 6th grade science books: Climate change a...
View ArticleA Total Eclipse of the First Day of School
Dedman College, SMU Physics Department host Great American Solar Eclipse 2017 viewing Thousands of students, faculty and townspeople showed up to campus Monday, Aug. 21 to observe the Great American...
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