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09/29/16

LHC smashes old collision records

The Large Hadron Collider is now producing about a billion proton-proton collisions per second.

The 2×2 prototype detector for the DUNE near detector was placed in its cryostat in October 2023

DUNE scientists observe first neutrinos with prototype detector at Fermilab

08/12/24

The prototype of a novel particle detection system for the international Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment successfully recorded its first accelerator neutrinos.

11/01/04

Cigarette Lighter

Some might think it strange that data taken from the Radio Ice Cerenkov Experiment, a kilometer-wide neutrino detection system buried in South Pole ice sheets, is analyzed with the help of a cigarette lighter.

11/01/04

Anyes Taffard: Fisikari. Physicienne. Physicist.

When her Basque grandmother—Amatxi—taught five-year-old Anyes Taffard the language of her ancestors, she overlooked the Basque term for physicist: fisikari. But by the time she was 12, Taffard was already drawn to mathematics and science.

11/01/04

Families of the world

Scientists and their families are finding they must adapt to the increasingly international nature of particle physics. The effects on family life go far beyond jet lag and it's up to individuals to navigate the foreign terrain.

11/01/04

Typing rain

The assembled group of SLAC users hushed as Gabriella Sciolla rose to open the SLAC Users Organization annual meeting. And with that quiet came the rain.

11/01/04

Gammasphere

Gammasphere is a $20 million detector array that helps answer fundamental questions about the structure and behavior of atomic nuclei.

11/01/04

The universe (in fireworks)

In its 50th anniversary year, CERN had the honor of opening the 2004 Geneva Festival (Fêtes de Genève).

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