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<title><![CDATA[Hints of new physics postpones LHC upgrade]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[One end of the CMS detector during the LHC&amp;39's assembly in 2007.(Credit:Maximilien Brice/CERN)The Large Hadron Collider, CERN's particle accelerator straddling the border of Switzerland and France, is due to shut down for a major upgrade later than expected, after managers concluded the current rate of operational improvements could reveal new physical phenomena.The LHC is a mammoth tool best known for its search for the Higgs boson--or more likely, some believe, a suite of them--and its other probes of the bizarre realm of subatomic physics. By colliding particles in two high-energy beams of protons, or more recently lead ions, physicists can re-create conditions present near the Big Bang.Currently the LHC runs with two beams moving in opposite directions around its 27-kilometer circumference, with the particles in each beam accelerated to an energy of 3.5 tera-electron-volts or TeV.The eventual plan is to double that to 7TeV, which would detail high-energy physics better. Until recently, CERN had planned to shut down the LHC at the end of 2011 to make the upgrade. Now that plan has been pushed back.CERN has tripled the amount of data it can gather in 2011 compared with 2010, which leads to the &quot;tantalizing hints&quot; that new physical phenomena could be observed at the 3.5TeV level, CERN said in a statement yesterday.&quot;However, to turn those hints into a discovery would require more data than can be delivered in one year, hence the decision to postpone the long shutdown,&quot; CERN said. Thus, only a short technical pause is planned for the end of 2011.&quot;With the LHC running so well in 2010, and further improvements in performance expected, there's a real chance that exciting new physics may be within our sights by the end of the year,&quot; said Sergio Bertolucci, CERN's research director. &quot;For example, if nature is kind to us and the lightest supersymmetric particle, or the Higgs boson, is within reach of the LHC's current energy, the data we expect to collect by the end of 2012 will put them within our grasp.&quot;<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[On the GreenBeat: Cleantech investing hits $4 billion, car makers cana4a4t hit 1M electric cars by 2015]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Herea4a4s the latest action wea4a4re following on the GreenBeat:Cleantech investing hit $4 billion in 2010 a4&quot; Investments in cleantech companies are up 8 percent from the year before, according to a report by accounting firm Ernst &amp;amp' Young. Most investors decided to give money to late-stage cleantech startups that had already been well established. Only 26 percent of venture capitalists invested in early-stage cleantech startups.U.S. cana4a4t meet Obamaa4a4s goal of 1M electric cars by 2015 a4&quot; Electric car manufacturers dona4a4t have high enough production targets to meet that goal, according to a report by the University of Indianaa4a4s school of Public and Environmental Affairs. Obama set the target during his State of the Union address last week.Sungevity names Mac Irvin as Chief Financial Officer a4&quot; the solar panel installation company snagged Irvin from SunPower, another solar panel manufacturing company. Irvin secured around $500 million in transactions with Morgan Stanley, General Electric, Wells Fargo and others while he was at SunPower.$20 billion will be spent on smart grid research in the next 10 years a4&quot;and 75 percent of that will come from major utilitycompanies updating their power grids, according to a report by Lux Research. GE said it would work with ABB, an automated power developer, to invest in cleantech companies as part of the effort.Solar energy stocks have a field day after MEMC Electronic Materials posts strong earnings  a4&quot;Goldman Sachs also issued a note that First Solar and other solar power stocks were probably undervalued. Ardour Capital upgraded MEMC to a a4Abuya4 rating, but the stocks came back to earth during day trading once markets opened today as the rest of the market showed a bit of weakness.Grants from the Department of Energy lead to later-stage venture capital investment a4&quot; Six projects that received seed funding from the DOEa4a4s Advanced Research Project Agency have gone on to raise $100 million in mid-stage venture capital funding in just more than a year, according to a report from the DOE. The companies focus on solar energy and improving battery storage.[Photo: david_megginson]Next Story: Rejoice: Stewart, Colbert back on Hulu Previous Story: Pocketgear relaunches as Appia, becomes a mobile app store platformPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: cleantech, electric cars, Smart Grid, solar energyCompanies: First Solar, Goldman Sachs, MEMC          Tags: cleantech, electric cars, Smart Grid, solar energyCompanies: First Solar, Goldman Sachs, MEMCMatthew Lynley is VentureBeat's enterprise writer. He graduated from the University of North Carolina, where he studied math and physics, in May 2010. He has reported for Reuters. He currently lives in San Francisco, California. You can reach him at mattl@venturebeat.com (all story pitches should also be sent to tips@venturebeat.com), and on Twitter at @logicalmoron. Have news to share Launching a startup Email: tips@venturebeat.comVentureBeat has new weekly email newsletters.  Stay on top of the news, and don't miss a beat.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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