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Leveraging Nielsen Online Campaign Ratings(TM), Collider Launches Predictive Solution to Bridge Publishers' Precision Marketing Data and Nielsen Audience Verification AUSTIN, Texas, April 16, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Collider --a technology provider that maximizes cross-device media value for publishers--announced today that it has developed a predictive targeting solution that enables publishers to more efficiently deliver audience guaranteed campaigns as measured by Nielsen Online...

redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports – Your Universe Online The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) was officially shut down early Thursday morning, beginning a two-year period of repair and upgrades before the particle accelerator officially resumes its work in late 2014. According to Jason Palmer of BBC News, the LHC’s beams were “dumped” on the morning of February 14, but it wasn’t until Saturday morning the atom smasher’s more than 1,700 magnets reached room temperature. The...

John P. Millis, Ph.D. for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online For the last four years Congress and the White House have been unable to pass a federal budget, settling each time for continuing resolutions. However, such stopgaps keep funding levels flat, or even, accounting for inflation, in decline. In 2007, a plan was laid out to maintain US leadership in the field of nuclear physics, with the continued support of the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), a significant upgrade at...

Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) announced this morning that it will be giving its Large Hadron Collider (LHC) a bit of a rest until 2015. LHC completed its first three years of proton runs, and CERN said it will be giving the world's largest and most powerful particle accelerator a break. The first three years of the LHC's proton-on-proton beam collision experiments have produced important finds, including...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Oct. 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- What if everything you thought about the afterlife turned out to be wrong? Collider peels back the layers of reality to reveal some of today's most forward-thinking scientific beliefs about our universe. Collider, a science fiction novel by Chris Hejmanowski, tells the story of a father's journey and shows the true power of human will. Collider relies on real science to dress the fictional stage in the style of Dan Brown and...

After a short winter break, physicists working at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) on the French-Swiss border have set a new world record by successfully smashing two 4 teraelectronvolt (TeV) proton beams together producing a total of 8 TeVs, as they continue to search for the elusive Higgs boson “God particle.” Following the record-breaking smashup yesterday (April 5 at 12:38 a.m.), the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) scientists declared ‘stable beams,’ marking...

CERN physicists working at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) near Geneva, Switzerland are to increase the machine’s energy output to embark on a last-ditch journey to find the elusive Higgs boson, a theoretical “God particle” that could change physics as we know it. Scientists say the 14 percent boost in the proton beams’ energies should improve the collider’s chances of finding “new physics” and definitively confirming or denying the existence of the Higgs boson. CERN will...

Physicists at Mainz University significantly improve the calculation method for scattering experiments in particle physics Scientists at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) have set a new record for the calculation of scattering amplitudes. This kind of calculation is used to predict the outcome of accelerator experiments in which high-energy particles collide with one another. However, the calculations become increasingly difficult the greater the number of orders the physicists...

Physicists from around the world kicked off a major initiative on Wednesday to upgrade the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN -- the world’s leading laboratory for particle physics -- into a vastly more powerful space research machine by 2020. The work brings together scientists and engineers from some 14 European institutions, Japan and the United States, with the goal of developing new technologies in fields ranging from super-conducting magnets to energy transfer lines. While the...

Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider -- located on the French-Swiss border near Geneva, Switzerland -- have unveiled a new free app for Google Android phones and tablet computers that lets users see events unfolding live inside the particle accelerator in a 3D view. The app, called LHSEE, has already been downloaded more than 10,000 times. It was created by scientists, led by Dr Alan Barr, at Oxford University and has full approval of CERN. While the app doesn’t capture everything, it...