Muons are unstable subatomic particles that spontaneously and rapidly transform into other particles via a process known as ...

The European Strategy Group tasked a working group to compare seven proposals for CERN’s next large-scale collider.

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For more than 40 years, physicist John Conway has led research in high-energy particle physics, a field driven by a simple yet profound goal: to understand what the universe is made of and how it ...

Students heading to class in the Duane Physics and Astrophysics building now have a glimpse into the world’s largest particle detectors in a new mural painted by Veronica Keff. A senior in ...

Carnegie Mellon University doctoral student Kyungmin Park is helping scientists make faster, smarter decisions about which particle collisions to study at CERN, the world’s largest particle physics ...

Mr. Rowan is the chief executive of Apollo Global Management. Last week the Trump administration sent letters to a group of presidents of universities proposing a set of principles that has come to be ...

Scientists from the CMS collaboration at CERN have measured the speed of sound in the quark-gluon plasmas with record precision, a key step to understanding how matter behaved in the very early ...

For these physicists at CU Boulder, searching for the unknown is a matter of speed. Over the last decade, researchers on campus, including dozens of graduate and undergraduate students, have taken ...

Just like the universe depends on the fundamental laws of physics, Carnegie Mellon University's Department of Physics depends on its graduate student teaching assistants. This year, the department ...