This year, results from the Large Hadron Collider in Europe and the Tevatron in the United States will either prove or refute the existence of the Standard Model Higgs particle, a keystone in theorists’ proposed explanation for the origin of mass.
I was the chairman of the committee that recommended to the DOE that the Accelerator Driven Systems (ADS) approach to dealing with the long-lived component of spent nuclear fuel be terminated.
Welcome to the first issue of a new symmetry. Starting this month, symmetry goes back to its monthly roots with a modern twist: The magazine will come out once a month online, supplemented with breaking news from our symmetry breaking blog.
Readers rightly pointed out that the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory is operating well and colliding a range of particles from protons to gold nuclei, with funding from the Department of Energy's Office of Nuclear Physics. We also can't count.
