Awesome result. I think it's vitally important to acknowledge achievements that happen in parallel with research at the LHC because otherwise we're going to miss a lot of very neat results. I don't know enough about particle physics to be able to comment on the techniques involved unfortunately, but I love reading about the progress that's being made.<p>For someone that Wikipedia's a lot of this stuff, does someone know if this type of spin asymmetry is in any sense related to CP violation? [1] As soon as I read the article I thought of CP violation and I'm assuming this is basically the "P" violation.<p>Finally, reading this article actually triggered a totally different question:<p>"Using the electron accelerator at Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility in Newport News, Virginia, the researchers shined 170 billion electrons on a target of liquid deuterium over 2 months in 2009."<p>Shined or shone? Turns out to be quite the discussion topic (e.g., [2][3][4])!<p>[1] <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CP_violation" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CP_violation</a><p>[2] <a href="http://public.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/shined.html" rel="nofollow">http://public.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/shined.html</a><p>[3] <a href="http://grammarist.com/usage/shined-shone/" rel="nofollow">http://grammarist.com/usage/shined-shone/</a><p>[4] <a href="http://motivatedgrammar.wordpress.com/2010/10/18/has-the-sun-shined-or-shone/" rel="nofollow">http://motivatedgrammar.wordpress.com/2010/10/18/has-the-sun...</a>