Particle physics

Brian Greene welcomes the Internet to physics class with World Science U.

Last year, a monster magnet set out from Brookhaven National Lab on an epic trek by land and sea to Fermilab, where it will serve as the heart of a search for evidence of new subatomic particles. Last month, researchers...

The Higgs boson could be the tool that leads scientists to the next big discovery.

DOE-funded Program Benefits Companies, the Lab and Society

Photon science, a spin-off of particle physics, has returned to its roots for help developing better, faster detectors.

A determined volunteer gives an old detector new life as the centerpiece of a cosmic ray exhibit.

Scientists from two experiments have banded together to create a single comprehensive record of their work for scientific posterity.

Detecting new physics isn’t quite like detecting cat videos—yet.

Two years after the groundbreaking discovery of the Higgs boson, physicists are still hard at work.

SLAC scientist Michael Kelsey sees connections between the communities of physicists and do-it-yourselfers.

The 30-ton MicroBooNE detector, the cornerstone of Fermilab’s short-baseline neutrino program, will see neutrinos this year.

A new result from the Large Hadron Collider strengthens the case that the Higgs interacts with both types of particles in the Standard Model.