From NOVA, May 31, 2016: Inside the Fermilab particle accelerator, then Harvard undergraduate Sarah Demers, now a professor at Yale University, used an instrument to look on as protons collided at near light-speed with their opposites—antiprotons—and the resulting particle shards decayed after the cataclysmic blast.
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Neutrinos are a puzzling mixture of three flavors and three masses. Scientists want to measure it down to the last drop.
From SLAC, June 1, 2016: Fermilab is one of the collaborating groups preparing to build an ultrasensitive ‘eye’ for an elusive form of matter.
Quantum physics says everything is made of particles, but what does that actually mean?
Meet the world’s deepest underground physics facilities.
Simulations are key to showing how neutrinos help stars go supernova.
What are all of the symbols in Fermilab’s unofficial seal?
The Planck scale sets the universe’s minimum limit, beyond which the laws of physics break.
From Cosmos Magazine, May 19, 2016: The most elusive particles in the universe – neutrinos – might not stay hidden for much longer. Testing for the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment, or DUNE, began earlier this year.
A reader asks, “If atoms are mostly empty space, then why does anything feel solid?” James Beacham, a researcher with the ATLAS Experiment Group at Ohio State University, explains in this two-minute video.