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01/30/17

Sign of a long-sought asymmetry

A result from the LHCb experiment shows what could be the first evidence of matter and antimatter baryons behaving differently.

01/19/17

Matter-antimatter mystery remains unsolved

Measuring with high precision, physicists at CERN found a property of antiprotons perfectly mirrored that of protons.

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Conceptual illustration of a factory production line with robot arms with a particle collision in the center

US physicists prioritize closer study of the Higgs

10/08/24

Kimberly Hickok

Physicists in the United States support the development of an off-shore Higgs Factory.

02/01/05

Event display

Finding new species of particles isn’t as easy as simply watching them fly out of a collider experiment.

02/01/05

Einstein iconography

I discovered the theory of relativity and all I got was this lousy t-shirt.

02/01/05

E=mc2

Your car, and virtually all other activity on Earth, is ultimately powered by Einstein’s most famous equation.

02/01/05

Opportunities, decisions await Oddone

Pier Oddone, deputy director at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, will assume the leadership of the largest US particle physics laboratory at a time of great scientific opportunity and important decisions.

02/01/05

Let it rain

The most energetic particles in the universe have a message for us. The gigantic Pierre Auger Southern Observatory, still under construction in Argentina, is already trying to decipher it.

02/01/05

Stephon Alexander: Theory by day, saxophone by night

By day, Stephon Alexander theorizes about the effects of dark matter in his office at SLAC. By night he plays tenor saxophone in a San Francisco jazz club.

02/01/05

Night shift

Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, a crew of four to five operators plus a crew chief are on shift in Fermilab's Main Control Room, monitoring the accelerator complex.

02/01/05

Beyond the Standard Model

At almost any particle physics conference, meeting, or lunch table, the phrase "physics beyond the Standard Model" is heard over and over again. What's wrong with the Standard Model, anyway? Why are physicists so sure that there is something beyond it?

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