October 2018

Before you brush off this post with the "sure" response, let me qualify the title. Of course, anyone can become a particle physicist, although the learning curve can be steep and difficult to climb. But what I mean here is…

In this artist's depiction, an electron orbits the nucleus of an atom, rotating around its axis as a cloud of other…

Particle physics has historically been the site of long-standing scientific challenges between the United States and Europe, particularly since the birth of the CERN laboratories in 1954. And in parallel, another challenge…