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06/22/20

European Strategy prioritizes Higgs factory

The 2020 European Strategy recommends pursuing a Higgs factory, investigating a next-generation hadron collider at CERN, and ramping up accelerator technology R&D.

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Recognizing Rosemary Fowler

11/05/24

Pruthvi Mehta

A physicist reflects on learning about a hidden figure whose research helped inspire her own.

09/25/13

More than a game

Astrophysicists find a new use for the video cards that give computer games that movie quality: crunching scientific data.

09/24/13

The great physics quest

In their search for fundamental truths, particle physicists have a lot in common with explorers everywhere.

09/23/13

Artists challenged to depict physics

Through the “Collision” contest, 22 artists and scientists pushed themselves into new territory, portraying the concept of “new physics” through art.

09/13/13

The hunt for microscopic black holes

Finding micro black holes at the LHC would alert scientists to the existence of extra dimensions, which might explain why gravity seems so weak.

09/12/13

Magnetic Moment

A brewery near Fermilab honors the arrival of a giant electromagnet.

09/06/13

Famous Higgs analogy, illustrated

A Fermilab physicist and TED artists have created a short animation about the most famous description of the Higgs field.

Photo of Gabriel Palacios, A summer intern at Jefferson Laboratory, gets ILC tattoo

08/29/13

ILC ink

A summer intern at Jefferson Laboratory is excited about the proposed International Linear Collider—and he’s got the tattoo to prove it.

08/27/13

Neutrinoless double beta decay

The observation of neutrinoless double beta decay would suggest that, by itself, the Standard Model Higgs cannot give mass to neutrinos.

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