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Explain it in 60 Seconds: Lattice QCD

07/25/24

Sarah Charley

Lattice gauge theory, or lattice QCD, is a calculation method that helps scientists make predictions about the behavior of quarks at low energies.

07/16/13

Particles communicate with one another through force carriers.

07/09/13

Gunnar Maehlum is a businessman who retains the innovative and critical thinking he learned in particle physics.

07/08/13

Carnegie Mellon University alumni trace the origin of the smiley to a group of computer scientists discussing a physics puzzle in 1982.

07/02/13

Planck, the space telescope that this year revealed unprecedentedly detailed information about the early universe, is just getting started.

07/01/13

Ultrafast experiments at SLAC’s Linac Coherent Light Source require powerful, unique data systems adapted from particle physics.

06/28/13

Josh Cassada, accepted into NASA’s exclusive 2013 astronaut candidate class, cut his scientific teeth doing particle physics research at Fermilab.

06/25/13

Chart a course to knowledge with symmetry’s interactive map of all 17 US Department of Energy national laboratories.

06/18/13

Subatomic particles streaming from the Earth’s interior carry important evidence of the planet’s origins.