CERN and Mistral AI signed a statement of intent on October 15 to build a Large Physics Model trained on billions of simulated particle collisions. The two sides disclosed no budget or timeline, so for now it is an early signal.
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- Evidence40
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- Confidence70
MIT-led CMS analysis catches individual quarks leaving wakes in quark-gluon plasma
MIT physicists at CERN's CMS report quarks leaving wakes in quark-gluon plasma, calling it the first direct sign the plasma reacts to a quark as a fluid. The wakes bear on a narrower, long-debated question than whether the plasma is a liquid, though the MIT release does not say how strong the signal is.
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- Evidence35
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CMS measures the diffusion wakes jets leave in quark-gluon plasma, 20 years after the prediction
CMS physicists have measured, for the first time, the diffusion wakes jets leave behind in quark-gluon plasma, 20 years after they were first predicted. The result adds a second test of the fluid picture of the matter that filled the universe for its first microseconds.
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- Evidence60
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Pretrained transformer tags simulated FASER neutrino flavours with a tenth of the labels
Self-supervised pretraining let a sparse transformer match scratch-trained neutrino-flavour tagging with about 1,000 labelled events against roughly 10,000. All of it ran on simulated events for FASERCAL, a proposed FASER upgrade at CERN, so it is a design result until the detector records real neutrinos.
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Colliding oxygen-16 and neon-20 produced quark-gluon plasma, and the outgoing particles carried the shape of the incoming nuclei. Light-ion runs now buy two results at once.
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- Evidence62
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A few days of oxygen beams at CERN gave air-shower models their first laboratory test
Reading a cosmic-ray shower has always meant trusting a computer model of what happens in air. Last July the LHC made the collision those models start from, under conditions physicists chose.
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CERN starts pulling the LHC's original focusing magnets to make room for 11.3-tesla replacements
CERN crews have begun dismantling the LHC around ATLAS and CMS to swap its focusing magnets for niobium-tin ones about 40% stronger. The first replacement quadrupole is not due in the tunnel until the start of 2029.
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- Evidence50
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An empty LHC search narrows where quantum black holes could still be hiding
A search of LHC collision data for microscopic quantum black holes found none. The exclusion limit that follows is the publishable result. Where that limit sits decides whether theorists have to move.
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- Evidence38
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ATLAS measures proton-oxygen collisions more precisely than the shower models differ
The LHC spent part of July 2025 colliding protons with oxygen nuclei to imitate a cosmic ray hitting air, and ATLAS's measurement is now finer than the disagreements among the seven codes used to model showers.
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- Evidence62
- Adoption38
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- Confidence55
ATLAS reports entanglement between the Z bosons produced in Higgs decays
Entanglement had been confirmed in photons, electrons and trapped ions, all relatively long-lived systems. An Oxford-led team has now found it in Z bosons made inside the LHC's most violent collisions.
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- Evidence55
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- Hype gap+30
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- Confidence52
BASE trucked 92 antiprotons 7.5 km out of CERN to escape the facility's magnetic noise
The trap lost no particles on the road run and has held antiprotons for more than a month, and the collaboration's stated reason for moving them is that running the facility itself shakes the magnetic field its instruments depend on.
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- Evidence62
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- Hype gap+18
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UCSB physicists publish a null LHC black hole search as an exclusion limit
Tamas Vami and Danyi Zhang looked through CMS data for microscopic black holes, found none, and published the bound. They also describe the search itself as a new way to look for new particles.
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- Evidence57
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A truck carried 92 antiprotons 8 kilometres around CERN without losing one
Antiprotons had never travelled by road before March. BASE's mobile trap held its cargo long enough to prove the concept, and the precision gain the group wants still depends on a laboratory in Dusseldorf that is not finished.
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- Evidence70
- Adoption12
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- Incentives62
- Confidence68
ATLAS finds strong evidence of entanglement between two Z bosons from a Higgs decay
The two bosons decay before any instrument can touch them, so the team read their spins from the angles of the leptons left behind in 13 trillion electron volt proton collisions. Physical Review Letters has the result.
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- Evidence58
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- Confidence56
A drop in J/psi production at sub-proton scales strains conventional nuclear shadowing
ALICE turned near-miss lead collisions into a photon beam and scanned momentum transfer down to a resolution of 0.2 femtometers, about a quarter of a proton. The drop in J/psi production it found there was not expected.
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- Evidence58
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- Hype gap+25
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- Confidence55
NIST cuts X-ray energy uncertainty up to eightfold for uranium, plutonium and neptunium
Transition-edge sensors cooled near absolute zero measured the X-ray lines that sit inside the gamma-ray band used to identify nuclear material. Anyone who wants one also has to buy the refrigerator that keeps it cold.
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- Evidence42
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NIST's cryogenic sensors resolve the X-ray lines that blur plutonium and uranium assay
Physicists at NIST used superconducting films held near absolute zero to measure X-rays from uranium, plutonium and neptunium in the band where they overlap the gamma rays used for material accounting. Existing gamma detectors can use the new reference values.
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- Evidence62
- Adoption45
- Hype gap+18
- Incentives62
- Confidence58
The equilibrated core outweighs the corona in oxygen collisions past 20 charged particles
A Sophia University calculation of 5.36 TeV oxygen-oxygen collisions at the LHC counts how much of the matter actually equilibrates, and finds a nonequilibrated remainder near 30% that survives even the most central events.
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- Evidence54
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- Hype gap+9
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Invented authors carry real DataCite DOIs across 1,655 Zenodo records
A Samsung and University of Warsaw preprint tracks the names large language models keep inventing, Elena Vasquez and Marcus Chen among them, into hundreds of AI-generated papers that scholarly aggregators index without checking whether the author exists.
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- Evidence58
- Adoption54
- Hype gap+14
- Incentives42
- Confidence56
The metric that will decide the next collider is a ratio, not a total
An efficiency ratio can double while the electricity bill keeps climbing. That gap is where the case for the next collider gets argued, and won.
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- Evidence56
- Adoption28
- Hype gap+22
- Incentives62
- Confidence50