BYLINE: Ali Sundermier Read this story in the SLAC News Center Newswise — In the hunt for one of nature’s most elusive substances – dark matter, which makes up 85%…
Category: Physics
Physicist Builds Tools to See Quantum Matter More Clearly
BYLINE: Emily Tomlin Newswise — John Lajoie is a builder—not of buildings or everyday machines, but of detectors with a special purpose. A physicist at the Department of Energy’s (DOE’s)…
Physicists Celebrate World’s Most Versatile Particle Collider
BYLINE: By Karen McNulty Walsh Newswise — What does it take to build the world’s most complex and versatile particle collider? Attendees at a two-day celebration held at the U.S.…
Search in Strange Quark Sector Reveals New Particle Possibilities
Newswise — NEWPORT NEWS, VA – Despite science’s best efforts to classify the vast menagerie of subatomic particles discovered over the past few decades, some exotic varieties defy explanation. Now, nuclear…
Quantum Diamonds Meet Particle Physics in New Argonne Research Initiative
Newswise — A new Argonne project is bringing together experts in quantum information science and high energy physics to build diamond-based quantum sensors capable of measuring electromagnetic fields with unprecedented…
Gluons May Play Central Role in Baryon Number Conservation
Newswise — UPTON, N.Y. — New results from the STAR detector at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) suggest that gluons, the gluelike particles that hold quarks together inside protons,…
New Study Widens the Hunt for Dark Photons
BYLINE: Perimeter Institute Newswise — A new paper published in Physical Review Letters reveals that a leading dark matter candidate—the hypothetical “dark photon”—would not have heated the early universe as…
Muon g-2 Experiment Places New Constraints on a Forbidden Property of Muons
BYLINE: Madeleine O’Keefe Newswise — A year after their final muon magnetic anomaly announcement, the Muon g-2 collaboration today announced a new measurement of a different property of the muon: its electric dipole moment. Based…
DUNE Uses AI to Transform the Future of Neutrino Research
BYLINE: Caitlyn Buongiorno Newswise — The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment at the Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility recently began installing the structural elements of its massive neutrino detector modules. At the same time, the…
Landmark Dark Energy Survey Maps the Universe in Unprecedented Detail
Newswise — Dark energy — the invisible force accelerating the expansion of the universe — remains one of the deepest mysteries in modern science. Unlocking its nature requires not only powerful…
