No new physics — yet

World's largest collider finds nothing to match odd results from its nearest rival

After the two most powerful particle colliders in the world went toe-to-toe July 22 at the Europhysics Conference on High-Energy Physics in Grenoble, France, the result was a technical knockout.

New data from CERN’s Large Hadron Collider near Geneva delivered a serious blow to hints of unusual new physics coming out of the Tevatron at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Ill.