Research predicts the existence of a previously-unimaginable particle. When Italian physicist Ettore Majorana suggested that electrons could be split into halves nearly a century ago,…
NASA gives go-ahead for $20M multi-institution balloon experiment led by UChicago scientists. Sometimes a question is so big that it takes a continent to answer…
Nearly a century after Italian physicist Ettore Majorana laid the groundwork for the discovery that electrons could be divided into halves, researchers predict that split…
Gravitational waves are cosmic ripples in the fabric of space and time that emanate from catastrophic events in space, like collisions of black holes and…
The tetra-neutron – experiment finds evidence for a long-sought particle comprising four neutrons. While all atomic nuclei except hydrogen are composed of protons and neutrons,…
The ATLAS Experiment at CERN welcomes a brand-new detector: the Muon New Small Wheel system. Its successful installation follows nearly a decade of design and…
A 5-Sigma Standard Model Anomaly Is Possible One of the best chances for proving beyond-the-standard-model physics relies on something called the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa (CKM) matrix. The…
The hunt for gravitational waves, ripples in space and time caused by major cosmic cataclysms, could help solve one of the Universe’s other burning mysteries…
The ALICE collaboration has for the first time observed the residual strong interaction between protons and phi mesons. In an article recently published in Physical…
Scientific first at CERN facility a preview of upcoming 3-year research campaign. The international Forward Search Experiment team, led by physicists at the University of…
Early-career nuclear physicists show that a better understanding of how neutrinos interact with matter is needed to make the most of upcoming experiments. Neutrinos may…
Scientists from the RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science and collaborators have shown that they can manipulate single skyrmions—tiny magnetic vortices that could be used…
Scientists at the University of Birmingham have succeeded in creating an experimental model of an elusive kind of fundamental particle called a skyrmion in a…
Researchers Show New Strategy for Detecting Non-Conformist Particles Called Anyons By observing how strange particles called anyons dissipate heat, researchers have shown that they can…
In a first for particle physics, the CMS collaboration has observed three J/ψ particles emerging from a single collision between two protons. It’s a triple…
In the search for dark matter particles, a tabletop experiment in the heart of a Canadian mine might do the trick. The SENSEI collaboration uses…
New calculations show that a black hole slurping down a star may not have generated enough energy to launch a neutrino. In October 2019, a…
MIT Graduate student Nicholas Kamp describes the MicroBooNE experiment and its implications for our understanding of fundamental particles. Neutrinos are one of the most mysterious…
