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‘Impossible’ Higgs boson measurement within reach, thanks to a detour

08/05/25

Sarah Charley

A team of young scientists paused their new physics searches to develop an innovative machine-learning tool, which is now helping them narrow in on a rare and messy decay of the Higgs boson.

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09/24/24

Explain it in 60 Seconds: Quantum entanglement

The CMS and ATLAS experiments recently detected quantum entanglement between top quarks in high-energy collisions at the LHC. What does that mean?

09/17/24

New results from the CMS experiment put W boson mass mystery to rest

Physicists on the CMS experiment announce the most elaborate mass measurement of a particle that has captivated the physics community for decades.

Illustration of a W boson among a pattern of masks

09/10/24

Explain it in 60 seconds: W boson

Meet the short-lived particle that helps the sun shine.

Conceptual illustration of random objects with a gorilla in the center

09/03/24

Physics beyond the imaginable

The CMS experiment is developing a new type of trigger that looks for anomalies.

LZ’s central detector, the time projection chamber, in a surface lab clean room before delivery underground.

08/26/24

LZ experiment sets new record in search for dark matter

New results from the world’s most sensitive dark matter detector put the best-ever limits on particles called WIMPs, a leading candidate for what makes up our universe’s invisible mass.

Illustration of Edgar Marrufo Villalpando

08/20/24

The adaptable physicist

Edgar Marrufo Villalpando went from Mexico to the United States and from computational physics to astronomical instrumentation to pursue his childhood dream of becoming a physicist.

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

08/12/24

DUNE scientists observe first neutrinos with prototype detector at Fermilab

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

Conceptual illustration of a pie with a lattice crust

07/25/24

Explain it in 60 Seconds: Lattice QCD

Lattice gauge theory, or lattice QCD, is a calculation method that helps scientists make predictions about the behavior of quarks at low energies.

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