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The Higgs boson, a History.
Luis Álvarez-Gaumé and John Ellis discuss the history of the Higgs mechanism, indicate its importance for the Standard Model and examine its implications for the scientific community in a paper published in Nature Physics (January 2011). You can…
Read morePlancks results: Theoretical cosmologists' perspective
Julien Lesgourgues and Jan Hamann, respectively staff and post-doctoral fellows of the TH unit here at CERN, are members of the Planck collaboration, and have contributed to the analysis of the Planck data presented in the series of articles…
Read morePlanck mission releases first cosmology results
The «Planck» was launched by the European Space Agency aiming at a detailed record of the microwave background radiation, a relic of the primordial plasma filling the universe during the first hundred thousand years after the Big Bang, that is still…
Read moreCreative Collisions at CERN TH
Creative collisions continue at CERN this summer when the internationally renowned sound artist, Bill Fontana, takes up his Collide@CERN residence for two months from June 2013. The 65 year old america artist, who studied with John Cage and is…
Read moreTH institute on black hole horizons and quantum information
In classical General Relativity, black holes are the generic endpoint of gravitational collapse. They are characterized by an event horizon separating two causally disconnected regions, one visible to an asymptotic observer, the other accessible to…
Read moreTH Winter School 2013
The 2013 CERN Winter School on Supergravity, strings and gauge theory took place from 4th to 8th of February following a tradition that dates back to 2005. The School was originally organized by the European Thematic Network on “Constituents,…
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