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‘Impossible’ Higgs boson measurement within reach, thanks to a detour

08/05/25

Sarah Charley

A team of young scientists paused their new physics searches to develop an innovative machine-learning tool, which is now helping them narrow in on a rare and messy decay of the Higgs boson.

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12/18/23

Scientists measure entanglement at the LHC

Scientists on the ATLAS collaboration performed the highest-energy measurement of quantum entanglement.

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12/12/23

What’s so hard about measuring the strong force?

The ATLAS collaboration recently measured the strength of the strong force to a record level of precision, but there’s still a long way to go toward understanding this fundamental force.

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12/08/23

Scientists design program for the future of US particle physics research

In the culmination of a US community planning process that began in late 2020, the High Energy Physics Advisory Panel has approved the recommendations of the P5 Report.

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11/30/23

What is the electroweak force?

Electromagnetism and the weak nuclear force are two distinct fundamental forces. That wasn’t always the case.

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11/21/23

The theoretical work of preparing for DUNE

Phenomenologists must make precise predictions for what they expect DUNE data to look like.

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11/14/23

LHC physicists can’t save them all

As upgrades enable the LHC to produce more and more particle collisions, physicists are using machine learning to keep up with the growing task of sorting through everything.

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11/07/23

Can we fit the universe in a box?

Wouldn’t it be nice to have a computer answer all of the biggest questions in the universe?

10/30/23

Celebrating Dark Matter Day in Latin America

Scientists, artists, communicators and physics fans find creative ways to mark the unofficial holiday devoted to dark matter.

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