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The boson that physics almost rejected

07/02/24

Claire Malone

Nobel Laureate Peter Higgs died earlier this year. Twelve years ago this week, physicists discovered the particle that bears his name.

Illustration for engineering of Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (red, pink, blue, green, burgandy, navy, grey)

05/17/18

Five (more) fascinating facts about DUNE

A lot of cleverness goes into engineering the incredible, dependable, shrinkable Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment.

05/15/18

Inside the Large Hadron Collider

If two protons collide at 99.9999991 percent the speed of light, do they make a sound?

Photo of many CUWiP programs include a poster session where students have the opportunity to describe research

05/08/18

Leveling the playing field

Conferences for Undergraduate Women in Physics aims to encourage more women and gender minorities to pursue careers in physics and improve diversity in the field.

Illustration of Jean Deken holding abstract "strings" of timelines, file boxes, stacks of paper(pink, white, tan, blue, magenta)

05/01/18

Q&A: SLAC’s archivist closes a chapter

Approaching retirement, Jean Deken describes what it’s like to preserve decades of collective scientific memory at a national lab.

Collage of Einstein and Reimann's faces on ripped paper in a geometric field of color, pattern, and shape (teal, mustard, rust)

04/24/18

The coevolution of physics and math

Breakthroughs in physics sometimes require an assist from the field of mathematics—and vice versa.

04/17/18

The world’s largest astronomical movie

The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope will track billions of objects for 10 years, creating unprecedented opportunities for studies of cosmic mysteries.

Photo of a row of slim silver objects sit in the center of a tube

04/11/18

Right on target

These hardy physics components live at the center of particle production.

Illustration of particles sneaking into Higgs field, scientists watch with binoculars from bushes (green, pink, teal, cyan)

04/10/18

How to make a Higgs boson

It doesn’t seem like collisions of particles with no mass should be able to produce the “mass-giving” boson, the Higgs. But every other second at the LHC, they do.

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