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)…
Category: Particle Physics
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.…
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…
Maximizing Isotope Production for Medicine, National Security, and Beyond
The Science Newswise — When energetic protons strike a solid material, they create a burst of secondary particles. These secondary particles can include neutrons, photons, and even other protons.…
New DUNE Technology Put to the Ultimate Stress Test
BYLINE: Sarah Charley Newswise — One of the most ambitious physics experiments ever conceived is currently being built by an international collaboration hosted by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Fermi…
Indiana University physicists part of team installing upgrades to CERN’s Large Hadron Collider
Newswise — Physicists at Indiana University are part of a global scientific collaboration preparing to install new particle-detector components at one of the world’s most powerful scientific instruments, an upgrade…
