Newswise — This fall, the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis “for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantization…
Category: Particle Physics
Fermilab’s Accomplishments Highlight Discovery and Innovation in 2025
BYLINE: Madeleine O’Keefe Newswise — The U.S. Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory is not only one of the world’s premier particle physics and accelerator research facilities but also…
UAH Researchers Lead Study Suggesting Dark Matter Can Be Detected in Unidentified X-Ray Emission Lines in Spectra of Galaxy Clusters
BYLINE: Russ Nelson Newswise — Scientists search for “decaying” dark matter (DDM) because it offers unique signatures like specific X-ray or gamma-ray lines or neutrino signals not seen in normal…
Decades-Old Mystery in Particle Physics Solved
Newswise — Another long-standing mystery in particle physics has finally been solved. An international research team of the ALICE experiment at CERN’s particle accelerator, led by researchers from the Technical…
A Quarter-Century of Surprises: Exploring the Quark-Gluon Plasma
BYLINE: by Shannon Brescher Shea. Social media manager and senior writer/editor in the Office of Science’s Office of Communications and Public Affairs Newswise — Two huge metal rings, each more…
Painting Galaxy Clusters by Numbers (and Physics)
BYLINE: Megan Watzke Newswise — Galaxy clusters are the most massive objects in the Universe held together by gravity, containing up to several thousand individual galaxies and huge reservoirs of…
LZ Dark Matter Experiment Sets a World’s Best and Spots Neutrinos From the Sun’s Core
Newswise — There’s more to the universe than meets the eye. Dark matter, the invisible substance that accounts for 85 percent of the mass in the universe, is hiding all…
LZ Sets a World’s Best in the Hunt for Galactic Dark Matter
BYLINE: Lauren Biron Newswise — There’s more to the universe than meets the eye. Dark matter, the invisible substance that accounts for 85 percent of the mass in the universe,…
Two Beams, One Detector, Most Precise Search for ‘Sterile’ Neutrinos
Newswise — In the search for evidence of a ghostly particle called the “sterile” neutrino, the latest results from the MicroBooNE detector at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Fermi National…
