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08/24/20

LHC creates matter from light

Scientists on an experiment at the Large Hadron Collider see massive W particles emerging from collisions with electromagnetic fields. How can this happen?

08/13/20

A new view of the Higgs boson

Scientists know the Higgs boson interacts with extremely massive particles. Now, they’re starting to study how it interacts with lighter particles as well.

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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.

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04/21/14

Tracking particles faster at the LHC

A new trigger system will expand what ATLAS scientists can look for during high-energy collisions at the Large Hadron Collider.

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04/18/14

Is the universe balanced on a pinhead?

New precise measurements of the mass of the top quark bring back the question: Is our universe inherently unstable?

Illustration of Leonard Susskind on YouTube screen: Not just old codgers

04/17/14

Not just old codgers

During a day of talks at Stanford University, theoretical physicist Leonard Susskind explained “Why I Teach Physics to Old Codgers, and How It Got to Be a YouTube Sensation.”

Illustration of accelerators unexpectedly beneath your feet to a ferret that once cleaned accelerator components

04/15/14

Ten things you might not know about particle accelerators

From accelerators unexpectedly beneath your feet to a ferret that once cleaned accelerator components, Symmetry shares some lesser-known facts about particle accelerators.

Photo of Physicist Aaron Chou keeps the Holometer experiment

04/08/14

Searching for the holographic universe

Physicist Aaron Chou keeps the Holometer experiment—which looks for a phenomenon whose implications border on the unreal—grounded in the realities of day-to-day operations.

Photo of oldest Light

04/01/14

The oldest light in the universe

The Cosmic Microwave Background, leftover light from the big bang, carries a wealth of information about the universe—for those who can read it.

Illustration of 30 years collaboration with countries "Brazil, Argentina, Ecuador, Chile, Mexico, Peru" and detectors

03/31/14

30 years of inter-American collaboration

Three decades ago this month, scientists from Latin America came to do research at Fermilab, forming the ties of a lasting collaboration.

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03/27/14

Particle detector connects two generations

Work on Fermilab’s CDF detector during the more than two decades of its lifetime has been a family affair.

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