Physicists Spot Curious Signal in Hunt for Elusive Dark Matter Particles
Physicists using the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) dark matter detector deep underground in a former South Dakota gold mine say…
Inside the Experimental Traps Scientists Set for Ghostly Neutrinos
Seventy years ago, the physicists Clyde Cowan and Frederick Reines took a custom-built 10-ton detector, surrounded it with…
ATLAS breaks its own record with new search for double-Higgs production
Producing two Higgs bosons in a single proton-proton collision is among the rarest processes at the LHC. Yet…
CERN Physicists Discover Third and Final Member of Doubly Charmed Baryon Family
Physicists with LHCb Collaboration at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have detected the elusive Ωcc⁺ baryon, a particle…
CERN Physicists Observe New Exotic Particle
Physicists with the ATLAS Collaboration at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have observed the Bc*+ meson, an excited…
ATLAS observes new Bc meson excited state
The ATLAS Collaboration reports the first observation of the Bc*+ meson – a new composite particle state containing…
CERN Physicists Discover Heavier Cousin of Proton
Physicists from the LHCb experiment at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have discovered a new kind of heavy…
How shipwrecks and ancient Roman lead help physicists search for dark matter
When a 2,000-year-old Roman shipwreck was found off the Sardinian coast in 1988, it didn’t just thrill archaeologists…
Scientists think the mysterious glow in our galaxy could be from dark matter. What that means
At the center of our galaxy, there’s a mysterious, diffuse glow given off by gamma rays — powerful…
Breakthrough quantum algorithm solves a century-old math problem
Researchers have successfully used a quantum algorithm to solve a complex century-old mathematical problem long considered impossible for…