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08/15/23
Brookhaven

Quantum Information Science (QIS) Career Fair

The QIS Career Fair (virtual event, Sept. 13) aims to bring awareness to the wide range of QIS internships and careers available to college students, postdocs, faculty and early-career professionals. 

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Illustration of two dogs hula hooping in front of an audience

Don’t call it toponium

04/01/25
Sarah Charley

A large and unexpected excess of top quark pairs has the physics community excited, but the interpretation is still up for debate.

Visualization of a particle collision
03/10/20

Accounting for the Higgs

Only a fraction of collision events that look like they produce a Higgs boson actually produce a Higgs boson. Luckily, it doesn’t matter.

People of LHC
02/25/20

Seven views of work at the LHC

Symmetry chats with scientists working at the Large Hadron Collider to hear about differences between seven different rungs on the academic career ladder.

Scientist Reina Reyes
02/18/20

Reina Reyes looks like science

Reina Reyes made headlines for her research at Princeton testing Einstein’s theory of general relativity; now she’s home in the Philippines, using her physics background to make her mark in different ways.

Miniature particle accelerator
02/13/20

The reverse science fair

A school invited physicists from Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory to present their science for judgment by elementary students.

Striping away
02/04/20

On background

Physicists deal with background in their experiments in two ways: by reducing it and by rejecting it.

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