Particle accelerators are big projects; they can’t be done by small teams of scientists working alone; they need big teams, ... On the other hand, in the meantime, ...

In my right hand, I'm holding a priceless piece of human history. And that's not hyperbole. ... (1450-1455 AD) is scanned by a beam from SLAC's synchrotron particle accelerator.

Particle accelerators have clearly come a long way since their inception, but these machines have also moved from the labs, crypts, and underground tunnels and crucially from the hands of particle ...

A particle accelerator is a nonlinear system; when an operator makes a change to it, all of the possible downstream effects of that change can be difficult to predict. “The human brain isn’t good at ...

Yale’s particle accelerator may once have sent atoms flying through space at tens of millions of miles per hour, but humans clearly are a different ball game altogether. On Saturday morning, the line ...

Particle accelerator technology has crested a new wave. For the first time, ... Protons, on the other hand, are made up of a sea of quarks, resulting in messier collisions.

Twenty-five feet below ground, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory scientist Spencer Gessner opens a large metal picnic basket. This is not your typical picnic basket filled with cheese, bread ...

Currently, the most powerful particle accelerator on Earth is the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), but since it was used to discover the Higgs Boson in 2012, it has failed to deliver evidence of ...

The Matter at Hand What physicists call the “Standard Model” of particle physics, to indicate that it is still a work in progress, can explain much about the known world.

Particle physics is on the case. High-energy electron beams may be able to kill tumors 10 times deeper than current treatments can—without damaging vital organs. By Charlotte Lytton ...

The PIP-II construction project, currently underway, will increase the capabilities of the entire accelerator complex with a brand-new 700-foot linear superconducting accelerator. All of this, along ...