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      Gravitational Waves: Ground-Based Interferometric Detectors

      Marie Anne Bizouard and Nelson Christensen (2023), Scholarpedia, 18(12):53893.

      A century after their prediction by Albert Einstein, gravitational waves, produced from a binary black hole merger, were directly detected for the first time in 2015... more Icon more.png

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      The Top quark discovery

      Guillaume Unal (2023), Scholarpedia, 18(6):55687.

      The top quark, the heaviest elementary particle known to date, was discovered by the CDF and D0 collaborations in 1995, after almost two decades of searches... more Icon more.png

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      Searching for Long-Lived BSM Particles at the LHC

      Marie-Hélène Genest (2022), Scholarpedia, 17(12):54697.

      By definition, a long-lived particle (LLP) is an unstable particle with a sizeable lifetime... more Icon more.png


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    Focused encyclopedias are published by Springer/Atlantis Press as printed volumes. The first printed volume is....

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      Scholarpedia of Touch

      Tony J. Prescott, Ehud Ahissar, and Eugene Izhikevich, Eds. (2016). Scholarpedia of Touch. Paris: Atlantis Press.

      Touch is the ability to understand the world through physical contact. The noun “touch” and the verb “to touch” derive from the Old French verb “tochier”. Touch perception is also described by the adjectives tactile, from the Latin “tactilis”, and haptic, from the Greek “haptόs”... more Icon more.png

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