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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.

06/01/10

Sharing pizza across the Pacific

Monitoring a particle detector on the midnight shift can have a limited upside: the food.

06/01/10

Joe Frisch: Go, man, go!

Running the world's most powerful X-ray laser requires a special intensity.

06/01/10

John Zaklikowski: From junked part to detector art

Over the years, John Zaklikowski raided his savings account to purchase every mother board, cell phone and floppy disk in sight. Now he’s used them to create artwork modeled on large-scale particle physics experiments.

06/01/10

Hey, waiter! There's a feather in my fossil!

One hundred and fifty million years ago, a creature part dinosaur and part bird sank into the murky depths of a lagoon, never to fly again.

06/01/10

National Lab Day puts scientists in the classroom

Pier Oddone wandered past students who were setting up electrical circuits and asked how many of them were considering careers in science. Half raised their hands. “What about a career in physics?” he asked. All but two hands dropped.

06/01/10

The muon guys: On the hunt for new physics

That physicists are still fighting for the Mu2e experiment is a testament to the strength of the science behind it.

06/01/10

Take me out to the calculator

Baseball fans and physicists share two key loves: numbers and acronyms. While fans pore over statistics on RBIs, OBPs, and ERAs, physicists analyze data from particle accelerators such as RHIC, LHC, and CESR.

A collage of images pertaining to the LHC

06/01/10

The LHC decoded

Walk like a physicist, point by point, through three of the displays that highlight scientific and technical milestones from the Large Hadron Collider's first months of operation.

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