CERN Accelerating science

Low-Latency Interconnects Plumb the Depths of Particle Physics

Date published: 
22 Jan 2016

The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) reported last month that researchers may have discovered a new fundamental particle of matter. Despite the cautious enthusiasm of CERN physicists, it could take months for computers to comb through the ocean of data produced by the Large Hadron Collider and confirm that the particle actually exists.