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      <title>AI enhances Higgs boson’s charm</title>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>AI enhances Higgs boson’s charm</p>

<p>To me, this is what AI is meant to be used for,   taking data and helping scientists sort through this and make meaningful conclusions based on data and interpretation of data.</p>

<p><em>The CMS collaboration presents a new search for the decay of a Higgs boson into charm quarks, bringing physicists closer to unravelling how this unique particle endows matter with mass [1]</em></p>
<ol><li><a href="https://home.cern/news/news/physics/ai-enhances-higgs-bosons-charm" rel="nofollow">CERN Article</a></li>
<li><a href="https://home.cern" rel="nofollow">CERN</a></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higgs_boson" rel="nofollow">Wikipedia Higgs Boson</a></li></ol>

<p><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/Standard_Model_of_Elementary_Particles.svg/640px-Standard_Model_of_Elementary_Particles.svg.png" alt="Standard Model"></p>

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      <pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2025 13:52:13 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>How to turn Pb in to Au</title>
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      <description>&lt;![CDATA[How to turn Pb in to Au&#xA;&#xA;Physics at CERN have used a high energy pulse to turn Lead (Pb) into Gold (Au).&#xA;&#xA;Interesting experiment.&#xA;&#xA;CERN&#xA;LHC near-miss collisions turn lead into gold &#xA;TransMutation&#xA;Ionization energies of all elements&#xA;WikiPedia - Electron Volt&#xA;Matrix: Physics&#xA;Science Forums Question&#xA;&#xA;Tags&#xA;&#xA;#Science,#Physics,#CERN,#ALICE,#Pb,#AU,#TransMutation,&#xA;#Experiment,#ElectronVolt,#IonizationEnergy&#xA;&#xA;hr&#xD;&#xA;&#xD;&#xA;table&#xD;&#xA;thead&#xD;&#xA;trtda rel=&#34;me&#34; href=&#34;https://qoto.org/@zleap&#34;Mastodon/a/td&#xD;&#xA;tda href=&#34;https://wiki.ircnow.org/?n=Shelllabs.Intro&#34;ShellLabs/td&#xD;&#xA;tda href=&#34;https://joinmastodon.org/&#34;Join Mastodon/a/td/tr/thead/table&#xD;&#xA;center&#xD;&#xA;AI statement : b Consent is NOT granted to use the content of this blog for the purposes of AI training or similar activity.  Consent CANNOT be assumed, it has to be granted. /b&#xD;&#xA;/center&#xD;&#xA;&#xD;&#xA;a href=&#34;https://liberapay.com/PaulSutton/donate&#34;img alt=&#34;Donate using Liberapay&#34; src=&#34;https://liberapay.com/assets/widgets/donate.svg&#34;/a&#xD;&#xA;]]&gt;</description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>How to turn Pb in to Au</p>

<p>Physics at CERN have used a high energy pulse to turn Lead (Pb) into Gold (Au).</p>

<p>Interesting experiment.</p>
<ul><li><a href="https://alice-collaboration.web.cern.ch/2025-alice-lead-to-gold" rel="nofollow">CERN</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/lhc-near-miss-collisions-turn-lead-into-gold" rel="nofollow">LHC near-miss collisions turn lead into gold</a></li>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2025 06:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description>&lt;![CDATA[New Supercollider&#xA;&#xA;Just had this from Symmetry Magazine [1], an article, discussing the plans for the new super collider [2].  Which will open up a whole new set of discoveries (well hopefully anyway).  This could make a good discussion on Discourse [3] so I have added a new topic to discuss further [4].  If you are interested in studying physics then maybe try the Open University [5] or to learn more about the Large Hadron Collider see the CERN page on this [6].  &#xA;&#xA;REFERENCES&#xA;&#xA;1 Symmetry Magazine&#xA;2 Super Collider Article&#xA;3 Discourse&#xA;4 Article discussion on discourse&#xA;5 Open University&#xA;6 CERN LHC&#xA;7 Study Support Group&#xA;&#xA;Other articles&#xA;&#xA;First results from Fermilab’s Muon g-2 experiment strengthen evidence of new physics, 8/4/2021&#xA;&#xA;VIDEO ON THE LHC (5 mins) &#xA;&#xA;iframe width=&#34;560&#34; height=&#34;315&#34; src=&#34;https://www.youtube.com/embed/oWpy0SAAI6E&#34; title=&#34;YouTube video player&#34; frameborder=&#34;0&#34; allow=&#34;accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture&#34; allowfullscreen/iframe&#xA;&#xA;TAGS&#xA;&#xA;#Physics,#Collider,#OU,#OpenUniversity,#Science,#Proton,#Energy, #LHC.#CERN&#xA;&#xA;a href=&#34;https://liberapay.com/PaulSutton/donate&#34;img alt=&#34;Donate using Liberapay&#34; src=&#34;https://liberapay.com/assets/widgets/donate.svg&#34;/a&#xA;&#xA;img src=&#34;https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/uploads/default/original/1X/6aac842b7ff5c58385a02f3a131c259281be88c8.png&#34; target=&#34;_blank&#34; &#xA;&#xA;a rel=&#34;license&#34; href=&#34;http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/&#34;img alt=&#34;Creative Commons Licence&#34; style=&#34;border-width:0&#34; src=&#34;https://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-sa/4.0/88x31.png&#34; //abr /This work is licensed under a a rel=&#34;license&#34; href=&#34;http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/&#34;Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License/a&#xA;&#xA;hr&#xD;&#xA;&#xD;&#xA;table&#xD;&#xA;thead&#xD;&#xA;trtda rel=&#34;me&#34; href=&#34;https://qoto.org/@zleap&#34;Mastodon/a/td&#xD;&#xA;tda href=&#34;https://wiki.ircnow.org/?n=Shelllabs.Intro&#34;ShellLabs/td&#xD;&#xA;tda href=&#34;https://joinmastodon.org/&#34;Join Mastodon/a/td/tr/thead/table&#xD;&#xA;center&#xD;&#xA;AI statement : b Consent is NOT granted to use the content of this blog for the purposes of AI training or similar activity.  Consent CANNOT be assumed, it has to be granted. /b&#xD;&#xA;/center&#xD;&#xA;&#xD;&#xA;a href=&#34;https://liberapay.com/PaulSutton/donate&#34;img alt=&#34;Donate using Liberapay&#34; src=&#34;https://liberapay.com/assets/widgets/donate.svg&#34;/a&#xD;&#xA;]]&gt;</description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>New Supercollider</p>

<p>Just had this from Symmetry Magazine [1], an article, discussing the plans for the new super collider [2].  Which will open up a whole new set of discoveries (well hopefully anyway).  This could make a good discussion on Discourse [3] so I have added a new topic to discuss further [4].  If you are interested in studying physics then maybe try the Open University [5] or to learn more about the Large Hadron Collider see the CERN page on this [6].</p>

<p><strong>REFERENCES</strong></p>

<p>1 <a href="https://www.symmetrymagazine.org" rel="nofollow">Symmetry Magazine</a>
2 <a href="https://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/the-next-supercollider" rel="nofollow">Super Collider Article</a>
3 <a href="https://discourse.qoto.org/" rel="nofollow">Discourse</a>
4 <a href="https://discourse.qoto.org/t/the-next-supercollider/604" rel="nofollow">Article discussion on discourse</a>
5 <a href="http://www.open.ac.uk/" rel="nofollow">Open University</a>
6 <a href="https://home.cern/science/accelerators/large-hadron-collider" rel="nofollow">CERN LHC</a>
7 <a href="https://personaljournal.ca/studysupportgroup/" rel="nofollow">Study Support Group</a></p>

<p>Other articles</p>
<ul><li><a href="https://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/first-results-from-fermilabs-muon-g-2-experiment-strengthen-evidence-of-new-physics" rel="nofollow">First results from Fermilab’s Muon g-2 experiment strengthen evidence of new physics</a>, 8/4/2021</li></ul>

<p>**VIDEO ON THE LHC (5 mins) **</p>

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      <description>&lt;![CDATA[Discussion on Open Hardware&#xA;&#xA;The foss-north crew discuss and explain copyright and licenses. In this episode, Javier Serrano joins us and discuss open hardware and how open licenses work in that space.&#xA;&#xA;iframe width=&#34;560&#34; height=&#34;315&#34; sandbox=&#34;allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-popups&#34; src=&#34;https://diode.zone/videos/embed/b907dac8-9b4c-42db-b130-26dd79547c8e&#34; frameborder=&#34;0&#34; allowfullscreen/iframe&#xA;&#xA;Foss North&#xA;&#xA;#cern,#freesoftware,#licensing,#open,#hardware &#xA;opensource&#xA;&#xA;hr&#xD;&#xA;&#xD;&#xA;table&#xD;&#xA;thead&#xD;&#xA;trtda rel=&#34;me&#34; href=&#34;https://qoto.org/@zleap&#34;Mastodon/a/td&#xD;&#xA;tda href=&#34;https://wiki.ircnow.org/?n=Shelllabs.Intro&#34;ShellLabs/td&#xD;&#xA;tda href=&#34;https://joinmastodon.org/&#34;Join Mastodon/a/td/tr/thead/table&#xD;&#xA;center&#xD;&#xA;AI statement : b Consent is NOT granted to use the content of this blog for the purposes of AI training or similar activity.  Consent CANNOT be assumed, it has to be granted. /b&#xD;&#xA;/center&#xD;&#xA;&#xD;&#xA;a href=&#34;https://liberapay.com/PaulSutton/donate&#34;img alt=&#34;Donate using Liberapay&#34; src=&#34;https://liberapay.com/assets/widgets/donate.svg&#34;/a&#xD;&#xA;]]&gt;</description>
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<p>The foss-north crew discuss and explain copyright and licenses. In this episode, Javier Serrano joins us and discuss open hardware and how open licenses work in that space.</p>

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