Our readers live in all parts of the globe, from Alaska to Wyoming; from Argentina to Zimbabwe. But when a copy of symmetry lands in a mailbox, that's often not the end of its journey.
Though scientists are skeptical of the suggested particle's existence, the results from Legnaro need to be checked, says Chou, who strayed from his usual area of researchcosmology to help put the project together. "It's unlikely but not impossible.
When Aaron Chou heard about an experiment in Italy that suggested the existence of an exotic particle as a candidate for dark matter, he was intrigued enough to go looking for it. His first stop: the Fermilab cafeteria.
Supercomputers can play chess, map DNA, and aid in the study of dark energy. But recently they were unleashed on a bold new frontier: optimizing the production of potato chips.
His photographs show scientists and experiments, large physics facilities and tiny devices, enthusiastic crowds of conference participants and lone researchers absorbed in thought.
Drawn by the chance to help answer the most fundamental questions about the universe, philanthropists are starting to make significant investments in physics research.
Bird watchers have "life lists" of species they hope to see in their lifetimes. Why shouldn't particle physics fans do the same? With that in mind, in our April issue we asked readers to help us put together the first particle physics life list.
When Fermilab Director Pier Oddone asked me to join a group to consider possible intermediate-term accelerator-based physics opportunities at Fermilab in case construction of the International Linear Collider does not proceed on the proposed timeline, I was pleased to participate.
I've heard it said that culture is the opposite of nature. For me, that highlights the remarkable richness of particle physics. The “nature" of particle physics (the science) is a deep, complex mine of concepts and discoveries.
In 1967, 400 enthusiastic scientists met at Argonne National Laboratory to discuss plans to build a new 200 GeV accelerator and a national laboratory to house it.
Before conversion to a superconducting magnet, the Fermi Chicago Cyclotron Magnet (symmetry, Dec 2006) was used in the Neutrino Area as an analyzing magnet for muons.
