Particle Physics

An introduction to Particle Physics Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
What exactly is the Higgs boson? Have physicists proved that it really exists? Scientific American
The Higgs Boson, and How Particles Acquire Mass By Mary and Ian Butterworth, Imperial College London, and Doris and Vigdor Teplitz, Southern Methodist University, Dallas
Quarks Stanford
Hadrons Stanford
What is the LHC? Large Hadron Collider

Books

The Ideas of Particle Physics: An Introduction for Scientists, at Amazon USA
The Particle Adventure the fundamentals of matter and force
Particle Chart
kaon photographed in Machester in 1946
Theory of matter may need rethink - 25/03/04 K-meson or kaon decaying more often than predicted by the Standard Model
The Charm of Strange Quarks: Mysteries and Revolutions of Particle Physics, at Amazon USA
The Particle Garden: Our Universe As Understood by Particle Physicists, at Amazon USA
The Ideas of Particle Physics : An Introduction for Scientists, at Amazon USA
Facts and Mysteries in Elementary Particle Physics, at Amazon USA
Quarks and Gluons: A Century of Particle Charges, at Amazon USA
The Particle Odyssey: A Journey to the Heart of the Matter, at Amazon USA
Quantum: A Guide for the Perplexed, at Amazon USA
The Discovery of Subatomic Particles Revised Edition, at Amazon USA
Quarks Leptons and the Big Bang, at Amazon USA
The Ideas of Particle Physics : An Introduction for Scientists, at Amazon USA
In Search of the Ultimate Building Blocks, at Amazon USA

News

Searching for WIMPS (Weakly Interacting Massive Particles)
Particle collider to recreate universe's first moments - 23/03/00
Science finds particle perfection - 20/07/00 With the tau's detection, matter's construction set is complete
'Antimatter factory' starts work - 10/08/00
Scientists close in on elusive particle - 06/09/00 Higgs
European collider gets short reprieve - 14/09/00
The secret of matter discovered - 14/05/01 direct Charge Parity (CP) violation
Ghostly particle mystery 'solved' - 18/06/01 the puzzle of the missing solar neutrinos
Scientists find mystery particle - 18/11/03 X(3872)
New form of matter created in lab - 29/01/04 fermionic condensate
Milestone for giant physics lab - 28/02/07
Mirror particles form new matter - 12/09/07
'Big Bang machine' fires up - 07/09/08
Precision measurement of W boson mass portends stricter limits for Higgs particle - 11/03/09
LHC gets colder than deep space - 16/10/09
LHC nears restart after repairs - 17/11/09
Q&A: Large Hadron Collider repairs - 20/11/09
CERN Collider achieves first collisions - 23/11/09
First atoms reported smashed in Large Hadron Collider (Update) - 23/11/09
Large Hadron Collider sets world energy record - 30/11/09
More precise measurements of the W boson - 21/12/09 The D0 Collaboration used the Tevatron at Fermilab. They gathered data from a specific form of decay, and measured the spectrum of energy from the electrons that resulted
Large Hadron Collider failure will leave science back in the 'wilderness' - 26/12/09
Physicists Beginning to See Data from the Large Hadron Collider - 07/01/10
Jetting into the Quark-Gluon Plasma - 15/01/10
Physicists Investigate Possibility of an 'Unhiggs' - 28/01/10
First results from Large Hadron Collider published - 09/02/10
Study hints at dark matter action - 11/02/10
How does the proton get its spin? - 17/02/10
First physics from the Large Hadron Collider's CMS detector - 17/02/10
Exploring the secrets of dark matter - 18/02/10
The First T2K Neutrino Event Observed At Super-Kamiokande - 25/02/10
From two-trillion-degree heat, researchers create new matter - and new questions - 04/03/10 the most massive antinucleus discovered to date at Brookhaven is a negatively charged state of antimatter containing an antiproton, an antineutron, and an anti-Lambda particle
LHC to shut down for a year to address design faults - 10/03/10
Large Hadron Collider smashes energy record again - 19/03/10 the machine created two beams of protons, each with an energy of 3.5 trillion electron volts
Magnetic monopole experiment at CERN could rewrite laws of physics - 24/03/10
Collider to begin science quest - 30/03/10
CERN LHC sees high-energy success - 30/03/10 7 TeV
New 'heart' for particle detector - 27/04/10 The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer will be taken up to the ISS on the space shuttle
Masses of common quarks are revealed - 03/05/10
New clue to anti-matter mystery - 19/05/10 results from the DZero exeriment at Fermilab's Tevatron particle accelerator in Illinois show a 1% difference in the production of pairs of muon (matter) particles and pairs of anti-muons (anti-matter particles), a phenomenon called "CP violation"
First images of heavy electrons in action - 02/06/10
Explained: Quark gluon plasma - 09/06/10
US experiment hints at 'multiple God particles' - 14/06/10
Neutrino 'ghost particle' sized up by astronomers - 22/06/10
'Ghost particle' sized up by cosmologists - 22/06/10
LHC smashes beam collision record - 28/06/10 it is now generating around 10,000 particle collisions per second
Researchers seeking the fourth property of electrons - 20/07/10
LHC closes in on massive particle - 23/07/10
Conference highlights first results from the Large Hadron Collider - 26/07/10
Plans for an international linear electron smasher - the ILC - 26/07/10