Accelerator operators: pillars of particle physics August 23, 2022 | Emily Driehaus It takes years of on-the-job training to learn the ins and outs of particle accelerator operation.
Design thinking and the Disco-tracker August 16, 2022 | Emily Driehaus As part of a class on design thinking, a graduate student turned her research topic into an art installation resembling a giant disco ball.
Why aren’t neutrinos adding up? August 4, 2022 | Mara Johnson-Groh Physicists take on the mystery of the missing (and extra) neutrinos.
6 views of working in particle physics without a PhD August 2, 2022 | Emily Ayshford Symmetry chats with scientists and engineers about doing important work in physics without a doctoral degree.
Final Snowmass meeting to be held next week July 12, 2022 | Kathryn Jepsen The workshop is the culmination of a two-year process to provide a scientific vision and detailed proposals to the planning process for the future of US particle physics.
Four things physicists still wonder about the Higgs boson June 30, 2022 | Mara Johnson-Groh Scientists have learned a lot about the Higgs boson in the decade since they discovered it. But intriguing questions remain.
What’s up with the W boson mass? May 25, 2022 | Sarah Charley The CDF experiment at Fermilab measured the mass of the W boson and came up with an answer that no one expected.
Can a theory ever die? May 3, 2022 | Sarah Charley Neglected theories will wilt and wither but can bloom again with enough attention.
Double trouble Higgs April 26, 2022 | Sarah Charley Scientists worried Higgs pairs would be too rare for LHC experiments to find. But by using machine learning, they now are getting tantalizingly close.
How to make a muon beam April 12, 2022 | Lauren Biron For the Muon g-2 experiment, researchers create billions of muons to study their surprising properties.