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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.

05/30/17

A brief etymology of particle physics

How did the proton, photon and other particles get their names?

HPS Silicon Vertex Tracker being assembled

05/26/17

First results from search for a dark light

The Heavy Photon Search at Jefferson Lab is looking for a hypothetical particle from a hidden “dark sector.”

Illustration of a scientist handing papers to another, blindfolded scientist through hole in glass door

05/16/17

The facts and nothing but the facts

At a recent workshop on blind analysis, researchers discussed how to keep their expectations out of their results.

Illustration of two men in detached roller coaster car flying through space

05/09/17

Understanding the unknown universe

The authors of We Have No Idea remind us that there are still many unsolved mysteries in science.

05/04/17

Sterile neutrino search hits roadblock at reactors

A new result from the Daya Bay collaboration reveals both limitations and strengths of experiments studying antineutrinos at nuclear reactors.

04/27/17

Did you see it?

Boston University physicist Tulika Bose explains why there's more than one large, general-purpose particle detector at the Large Hadron Collider.

Illustration of mountains in Turkey where undergraduates search for hidden tombs in Turkey using cosmic-ray muons

04/25/17

Archaeology meets particle physics

Undergraduates search for hidden tombs in Turkey using cosmic-ray muons.

Man and boy sitting on handmade raft with sail in water

04/18/17

How blue-sky research shapes the future

While driven by the desire to pursue curiosity, fundamental investigations are the crucial first step to innovation.

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