The LHC is in the first months of a two-year technical shutdown for maintenance and upgrades. During that time, lucky visitors can secure a place on an underground guided tour.
On May 31, 2010, at Gran Sasso National Laboratory in Italy, Antonio Ereditato, spokesperson of the OPERA (Oscillation Project with Emulsion tRacking Apparatus) experiment, reported to the scientific community the detection of the first candidate event for the appearance of a tau neutrino in a be
Many a promising innovation dies on its way from the research lab to the commercial market. But with help from government or industry, the survival odds increase.
The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, which will plumb a bigger volume of the universe than any survey before it, isn't just a challenge for astronomers. It also requires the expertise of high-energy physicists, who play key roles in advancing the flourishing field of survey astronomy.
Experiments in particle physics have decades of experience as thoroughly international collaborations. Can the giant accelerators that power these experiments make the leap to go global as well?
Fermilab scientists are using what look like dime-store toys to polish specialized accelerator cavities, each of which costs about as much as a brandnew Maserati.
