To learn more about the nature of matter, energy, space, and time, physicists smash high-energy particles together in large accelerator machines, creating sprays of millions of particles per second of ...

Geneva, 4 July 2012. At a seminar held at CERN1 today as a curtain raiser to the year’s major particle physics conference, ICHEP2012 in Melbourne, the ATLAS and CMS experiments presented their latest ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists have inched a step closer to solving an enduring mystery in physics — why the universe contains any matter at all — ...

Learn how, after one of the world’s most sensitive neutrino detectors discovered mysterious radio pulses in Antarctica, researchers are developing more efficient neutrino research. The brittle crunch ...

A new particle physics experiment has created as many “hypernuclei” in its first three months of operation as have been produced in the 50 years since the exotic particle was first discovered.

THE STANDARD MODEL of particle physics—completed in 1973—is the jewel in the crown of modern physics. It predicts the properties of elementary particles and forces with mind-boggling accuracy. Take ...

Two independent lines of evidence from the world’s most powerful particle experiments are converging on the same uncomfortable conclusion: something is producing signals that the Standard Model of ...

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Researechers are testing superconducting microwire single-photon detectors (SMSPDs) for use in future particle physics exepriments. The detectors, which were designed and fabricated at JPL and ...

Researchers have developed a novel high-energy particle detection instrumentation approach that leverages the power of quantum sensors -- devices capable of precisely detecting single particles. To ...