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

LZ experiment sets new record in search for dark matter

08/26/24

Lauren Biron

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 stylized patches of "temperatures" around actual bits of the HLC beampipe (grey, blue, red, pink, black)

03/27/18

Keeping the LHC cold

The LHC is one of the coldest places on the planet.

Photo of two pink trails, representing particles, show the motion of particles passing through the accelerator complex.

03/23/18

Complex complexes

These two-minute animations break down the accelerator systems at Fermilab and CERN.

Illustration of person reading “standard model” keep getting bonked with apples labeled as different experiments (green, pink)

03/20/18

Starting from the bottom

The bottom quark may lead physicists on a path to new discoveries.

Illustration of a view of the LHC for people with visual impairments (red, black, green, blue, pink, grey, white)

03/13/18

LHC exhibit expands beyond the visual

The touring Tactile Collider event explores new ways to access Large Hadron Collider science through touch, sound and live interaction.

Illustration of Renee Horton, NASA, planet, spaceship (red, black, blue, purple, grey, white, purple)

03/06/18

Bring a folding chair

National Society of Black Physicists President Renée Horton talks with Symmetry about finding a place to belong in physics.

Photo of Jogesh Rout writing equations on a clear panel, blue background

03/05/18

Q&A: Jogesh Rout

What's it like being a theoretical neutrino physicist working on the Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility?

Illustration of gymnasts measuring distance between Earth and moon, judges score a zero and gymnasts a happy

02/27/18

Looking for nothing to test gravity

When they look for violations of Einstein’s general relativity, physicists deliberately plan experiments to find nothing at all.

Photo at the artist’s reception for Jenkins’ show, a visitor peers through the magnifying glass of a sculpture

02/23/18

Fusing Fermilab physics with art

Fermilab’s 2017 artist-in-residence, Jim Jenkins, melds pieces of physics experiments into his creations.

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