Achieving accurate transfer maps for realistic beamline elements hinges on obtaining precise 3-D magnetic field data for both straight and curved beamlines. Among various numerical methods for ...

The physicist Luis Alvarez was a wide-ranging thinker who contributed to the development of the atomic bomb and upended the ...

In physics, there are two great pillars of thought that don't quite fit together. The Standard Model of particle physics ...

A school gym-sized facility tucked away at the University of Michigan is quietly pushing the boundaries of what lasers can do ...

A team of scientists from Canadian particle accelerator center TRIUMF and the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics ...

Particles orbiting a black hole could collide at colossal energies, generating collision products that may offer valuable ...

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Scientists at CERN have observed an unexpected phenomenon within the world’s largest particle accelerator that suggests that ...

We speak to Cern principal scientist Archana Sharma about pattern recognition, machine learning and quantum technology.

The world’s most powerful particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, is entering exciting new territory. For the first time ever, the LHC is smashing together protons and oxygen ...

Far lighter than other ions collided at the LHC, oxygen (and neon) could tell us about conditions in the early universe.

This week, more than 600 scientists met in Venice, Italy, to debate the future direction of European particle physics in the global context. The Open Symposium is an important step in the ongoing ...