Marc Messerschmidt, a staff scientist at the Coherent X-ray Imaging (CXI) experimental station at SLAC's Linac Coherent Light Source X-ray laser, describes his daily...
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In this conceptual art, an electron and positron collide, resulting in a B meson (not shown) and an antimatter B-bar meson, which then decays...
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When stars explode, the supernovas send off shock waves like the one shown in this artist's rendition, which accelerate protons...
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In 2019, researchers plan to replace the current dark matter experiment LUX with the more sensitive LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ). It will be located one mile...
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In this illustration, two protons collide at high energy, producing a Higgs boson that instantly decays, producing two tau particles...