Particle physics

Jack Steinberger, who died at the age of 99, was one of three winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1988 for his work on neutrinos and the discovery of the muon neutrino. This research has done much to advance the understanding of…

SANTA CRUZ — The Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics experienced a leadership transition early in the new year after Steven Ritz, a physics professor at UC Santa Cruz, resigned as director of the institute. Ritz was director of the…

Imagine this: a stationary object such as a vase suddenly explodes, sending fragments flying. Given the final energies and momentum of the fragments, can you determine the mass of the object before it shattered? Dave Fish introduces…

Through US Department of Energy November 17, 2020 The standard model includes particles of matter (quarks and leptons), force-carrying particles (bosons) and the Higgs boson. Credit: Illustration courtesy of Sandbox Studio, Chicago for…

Typical magnetic field variations as mapped by the trolley at different positions in the storage ring of the Muon g-2…

Chris QuiggFermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois, USAOctober 5, 2020&ball; Physics 13, 156Particle physicists in the United States are embarking on a year-long community study to examine options for the future…

MIT researchers recently demonstrated that using artificial intelligence to simulate aspects of nuclear physics particles and theories can lead to faster algorithms, and therefore faster discoveries in theoretical physics. The MIT research…

The Standard Model of particle physics describes all known elementary particles and three of the four fundamental forces governing the universe; anything but gravity. These three forces - electromagnetic, strong…

A new ATLAS measurement of a key Standard Model feature known as lepton flavor universality suggests that an earlier discrepancy measured by the LEP collider in W boson decays may be due to fluctuation. The best-known particle of the…

In just six weeks, from March 19 to May 1, an international team of physicists and engineers led by Princeton's Christian Galbiati brought a fan from concept to FDA approval. The US Food and Drug Administration announced on Sunday May 3…

If, while spending more time at home, you develop a desire for more particle physics in your life, look no further. You can learn all about the weird world of subatomic particles by browsing through the information below. Dive into the…

The LHCb experiment at CERN. Credit: CERN The new LHCb analysis still sees the previous intriguing result: the new analysis continues to find tensions with the Standard Model, but more data is needed to identify its cause. At a…

Large-scale particle physics produces large amounts of data as a result - and this is particularly true of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world's largest particle accelerator, which is housed at the European Organization for Nuclear…

Display of a simulated particle collision event with a High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC) in an upgraded ATLAS detector. The event has an average of 200 collisions per particle packet crossing. (Credit: ATLAS/CERN…

Jason Heeris, a physicist and signal processing engineer in southeastern Australia, went semi-viral in mid-September 2019 for a tweet about how he tried to put his 3-year-old son to sleep with a lecture on the Standard Model of…

Although abstract by nature, mathematics has concrete origins: the greatest advances have been inspired by the natural world. Recently, a new result in linear algebra was discovered by three…

Qwerty123uiop Wikimedia Commons Quarks are elementary particles with no substructure. Understanding them is crucial to learning how physics works at the smallest levels. By studying the collisions…

She worked for a summer at the European Organization for Nuclear Research in Geneva, known as CERN, the world's largest nuclear accelerator, before graduating from Stanford in 1980. She went on to Harvard, getting his doctorate. in 1984.…

We may not know the meaning of life, but we are getting closer to knowing what it is made of. The answer to our huge questions starts small: particle physics. Step back layer after layer, channel a lot of energy into…

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The Large Hadron Collider is the largest particle accelerator in the world. It is a 26 kilometer long underground ring, located at CERN in Geneva, in which protons collide at a speed close to light. With a price tag of $5 billion and an…

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…

Posted: Sep 11, 2018 (News from Nanowerk) Particle physicists are looking for light. Not just any light, but a characteristic signal produced by the interaction of certain particles - such as ghostly neutrinos, which are…

August 17, 2018&ball; Physics 11, 82The ultimate reference on all things particle physics is available online, with a lite version of the booklet to follow soon. APS The 60th anniversary edition of the Particle Physics Review…

Experiments at the Large Hadron Collider produce about one million gigabytes of data every second. Even after reduction and compression, the data accumulated in just one hour at the LHC is similar to the volume of data that Facebook…

A massive project to supercharge the world's largest particle collider was launched on Friday in hopes the boosted machine will reveal new information about the nature of the universe.The 950m Swiss franc (£720m) mission will see the…

My copy of the forthcoming book by Sabine Hossenfelder. Chad Orzel Sabine Hossenfelder, another old school physics blogger, has released a new book, Lost in Math: How Beauty Misleads Physics…

The volume of data that particle physicists have to sort through at the Large Hadron Collider is staggering, and it's about to increase by an order of magnitude. To cope with this torrent of data, CERN is turning to machine learning,…

Physicists in China are on the verge of "vacuum breaking" - a phenomenon created by lasers of unprecedented power that physically rip particles out of empty space, showing that matter and energy are interchangeable, as Albert Einstein…

The smallest pieces of the universe are governed by a beautiful and mind-boggling set of rules: the "standard model". The Standard Model explains the behavior of the 17 particles discovered and continues to make predictions that have been…

Colleagues, students celebrate the success of the teacher, his passion for science A professor once recalled how 16-year-old Larry Sulak came across in an interview for an unpaid summer job in his lab: "A bright-eyed, bubbly…

North America's largest particle physics project is taking its first steps, and CU Boulder is involved. Our understanding of the universe may soon change thanks to the efforts of a thousand scientists around the world, including two from…

Each time physicists discover a new particle, the Standard Model gets one step closer to becoming a Super Model. Key pointsThe Standard Model fits the quantum world perfectly, but it can't explain gravity, dark matter, or dark…

A four-muon candidate event in the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. The muon/anti-muon... tracks are highlighted in red because long-lived muons travel farther than any other unstable particle.…

Neutrinos are among the most mysterious particles that exist. They are extremely difficult to detect because they tend to avoid other particles, but we know that they are expelled by supernovae, that one hundred trillion pass through our…

Working together, particle physicists from the United States and around the world have made exciting progress this year in our understanding of the universe at the smallest and largest scales. The LIGO…

Particle physics is amazing - an impressive combination of ambitious research and technical skill. Theorists have constructed a picture of our universe on the smallest scale, and experimentalists have devised the most ambitious experiments…

The Standard Model of particle physics is a remarkable theory. Its foundations are as solidly established as those of any other field of scientific research. So I would like to make a modest proposal to particle physicists: Start talking…

With tens of thousands of particle physicists working around the world today, the biggest challenge a researcher can have is keeping up with what others are doing. The articles they write, the collaborations…

Kristin Wiig will play badass particle physicist Erin Gilbert in the new ghost hunters, coming to theaters in July. In the official trailer, which was released on Thursday, fellow ectoplasm blaster Abby Yates, played by Melissa McCarthy,…

Physicists around the world (myself included) are hoping that this week will usher in a new era of discovery. And not, as some fear, the end of particle physics as we know it. After 27 months of shutdown and return to service, the…

The Standard Model of particle physics, which describes every particle we know of and how they interact, received a lot of credit when the Higgs boson was discovered in 2012. Now measurements of a rare particle physics decay particles…

Particle physics will become even more of an international enterprise in the coming decades, according to a panel tasked with developing a strategic plan for the future of particle physics in the United States, whose long-awaited…

This week marks the end of a multi-step community planning process that will shape the coming decades of particle physics in the United States. On Thursday, the Particle Physics Project Prioritization Panel, or P5, will present its report —…

iron man 2the second installment of Iron Man film franchise, finds hero Tony Stark in a pickle: The "arc reactor" in Stark's chest (which generates magnetic fields to stop the movement of shrapnel through his body) is powered by palladium,…

Particle physics research in the United States is a distributed effort involving researchers across the country. In 2013, more than 150 universities and laboratories in 43 states (plus Washington DC and Puerto Rico) received funding from…

As emerging players shake up old ambitions, Nigel Lockyer calls for the next generation of particle physics projects to be coordinated on a global scale.…

The same particle physics technology used to understand the universe is also used to improve health and medicine. Accelerators and detectors play an important role in the diagnosis of diseases, the reduction of tumors and the sterilization…

Saturday begins a new stage in the process that will set the priorities for US particle physics research for the next decade. The federal government's Particle Physics Research Advisory Group has appointed a group, called the Particle…

"Finally here!" With this unusual but understandable exuberance, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced today that it has awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics to François Englert and Peter Higgs. Nearly half a century ago,…

At a major particle physics planning meeting this summer, a few dozen physicists volunteered to speak on camera about why they do what they do. We at symmetry chose our top five explanations and asked you to vote for your favorite. The…

Today, more than 600 particle physicists from nearly 100 universities and laboratories gathered at the Minneapolis campus of the University of Minnesota. Over the next nine days, this diverse group of experts, who study the most…

Layers Using particle accelerators, chemists were able to see the detailed wet structure of the superabsorbent polymer material used in the diapers for the first time. This allowed them to tweak and improve the formula of superabsorbent…

In particle physics, advanced computing is a way of life. Studying the universe on the smallest scale requires some of the largest datasets in the world, and particle physicists often have to create their own solutions to computational…

Image from the Beacons of Discovery report, by Reidar Hahn. This week, an international organization released its vision for the future of particle physics around the world. The International Committee for Future Accelerators has posted…