Muons are a key subatomic particle in the discovery of new physics, but after particle collision, they’re difficult to track.

Illustration of a spiking neural network — dots represent neurons and lines show their connections. These systems help particle detectors analyze massive streams of experimental data. Scientists at ...

Physicists are rethinking how to detect elusive particles like neutrinos by combining existing technologies in unconventional ways.

The scientific world has long known that atoms form the basic building blocks of matter, but CERN is interested in peering beyond the atom into the mesonic and baryonic soup that gives rise to matter ...

Deep underground in a Canadian mine, a refrigerator nearly 1,000 times colder than outer space has just reached its target temperature—a milestone that brings scientists one step closer to potentially ...

Particle accelerators reveal the heart of nuclear matter by smashing together atoms at close to the speed of light. The high-energy collisions produce a shower of subatomic fragments that scientists ...

The sPHENIX detector is the newest experiment at Brookhaven National Laboratory’s Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and is designed to precisely measure products of high-speed particle collisions ...

Scientists working at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider have identified a previously unseen charmed baryon, a heavy subatomic particle belonging to the Xi family that had never been recorded in the ...

Scientists discovered “magic” top quarks at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, demonstrating how the facility has evolved to support quantum computing research. Researchers at ATLAS observed ...

After a decade of painstaking measurements, scientists have delivered a major plot twist in particle physics: a long-hypothesized “mystery particle” likely doesn’t exist. Using the MicroBooNE ...

A colossal cosmic ray, dubbed Amaterasu, struck Earth in 2021, baffling scientists with its immense power and unknown origin.