University of Queensland researchers have made a breakthrough in muonic atom research, clearing the way for new nuclear physics experiments. A team at the UQ School of Mathematics and Physics has ...

Buried deep below the American Midwest, a new kind of observatory is taking shape that aims to watch some of the most elusive particles in the universe as they stream straight through Earth. The Deep ...

Simon Fraser University researchers are driving Canada’s involvement on a major upgrade of the renowned ATLAS experiment as ...

Here’s something you rarely see so up close. The photograph above shows one of 18 optical modules inside KM3NeT, a massive detector for neutrinos, which are nearly massless, neutrally charged ...

To learn more about the nature of matter, energy, space, and time, physicists smash high-energy particles together in large accelerator machines, creating sprays of millions of particles per second of ...

Description: A young researcher at work at the CryOgenic Laboratory for Detectors (COLD) at INFN National Laboratories of Frascati. The laboratory’s cryostat (in the foreground) can reach -273.14 °C, ...

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There are precision measurements, and then there’s the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory. In each of LIGO’s twin gravitational wave detectors (one in Hanford, Washington, and the ...

The most beautiful experiment in physics, according to a poll of Physics World readers, is the interference of single electrons in a Young’s double slit. Robert P Crease reports Simply beautiful – the ...

Researchers have developed a novel high-energy particle detection instrumentation approach that leverages the power of quantum sensors -- devices capable of precisely detecting single particles. To ...