The magnum opus of particle physics is far from complete, requiring physicists to devise many alternatives—some weirder than ...

When Japanese scientist Toshihiro Fujii discovered a very high energy cosmic-ray event in May 2021, he christened it ‘Amaterasu’. It turned out to be the second-highest-energy cosmic ray to be ...

Scientists are on the trail of a mysterious five-particle structure that could challenge one of the biggest theories in physics: string theory. This rare particle—never seen before and predicted not ...

Particle therapy experts gathered in London to discuss the transformative potential of laser-driven proton and ion beams ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- A powerful new particle accelerator that could be set up at Fermilab, a telescope to observe the oldest light in the universe, and research to learn more about mysteries such as dark ...

In the development of particle physics, researchers have introduced an innovative particle encoding mechanism that promises to improve how information in particle physics is digitally registered and ...

Dr. Randolf Pohl from the Institute for Physics at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU), have successfully conducted experiments on hydrogen atoms which allow testing of the Standard Model of ...

The Future Circular Collider (FCC) has not yet received a political green light or funding Add as a preferred source on Google Some of the 1232 dipole magnets that bend the path of accelerated protons ...

More than a century before quantum mechanics was born, Irish mathematician William Rowan Hamilton stumbled onto an idea that would quietly foreshadow one of the deepest truths in physics. While ...

It’s the rarest particle decay ever discovered. Scientists have clinched the case for a special type of decay of subatomic particles called kaons. Further study of the rare decay could reveal a ...