Particle Physics
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This Experiment Will Shoot Ghostly Particles Through Earth, Answer Why We Exist
By Don Lincoln published
An international group of physicists has announced that they have seen the first signals in a cube-shaped detector called ProtoDUNE.
Happy Birthday, LHC: Here's to 10 Years of Atom Smashing at the Large Hadron Collider
By Don Lincoln published
Ten years ago, the world's largest scientific instrument was turned on and the start of a research dynasty began.
First-Ever Observation of Higgs Boson Decay Opens New Doors for Particle Physics
By Don Lincoln published
For the first time, scientists at the Large Hadron Collider have unambiguously detected Higgs bosons decaying into a matter-antimatter pair of bottom quarks.
Large Hadron Collider Just Spat Electron-ified Atoms to Almost the Speed of Light
By Rafi Letzter published
The Large Hadron Collider accelerated lead nuclei with orbiting electrons along its tunnel for the first time, opening new scientific doors.
Why a 4-Billion-Year-Old Particle That Hit Antarctica Is Such a Big Deal
By Rafi Letzter published
An international team of astronomers have pinpointed a supermassive black hole at the center of a distant galaxy as the first known source for the ghostly particles.
The Higgs Boson Has a New Friend
By Rafi Letzter published
The Higgs boson appeared again at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), and this time, it revealed something new and exciting about its behavior.
A Major Physics Experiment Just Detected a Particle That Shouldn't Exist
By Rafi Letzter published
There's something strange happening in the universe, and it's either evidence of a hidden particle, or a sign that the experiments are broken.
Nuclear Detectives Hunt Invisible Particles That Escaped the World's Largest Atom Smasher
By Rafi Letzter published
The Large Hadron Collider hasn't found any new physics since the Higgs boson. A team of outsider physicists think they know why.
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