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For scientists, that has long posed a problem: According to physicists’ best current theories, matter and its counterpart, ...

A new particle detector has passed a crucial test, demonstrating it's ready to start investigating quark-gluon plasma, the ...

Physicists have been baffled by the discovery of mysterious ‘ghost particles‘ for years (Getty/iStock) As the neutrinos ...

Over the past 25 years, the IPPP has published more than 1,600 research papers with an average citation count exceeding 100 – an exceptional marker of academic influence.

“There’s a lot of meanings for ‘small,’” says Janet Conrad, a particle physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ...

Kétévi Assamagan describes how US particle physicists are trying to make their field work for people of all genders, ethnicities and backgrounds. This year, thousands of particle physicists thrashed ...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is making significant strides in the realm of physics, demonstrating immense potential across ...

Recently, I watched a fellow particle physicist talk about a calculation he had pushed to a new height of precision. His tool? A 1980s-era computer program called FORM. Particle physicists use some of ...

An international collaboration has developed a new diagnostic technique for measuring ultra-short particle beams at STFC's ...