The Algorithm That Lets Particle Physicists Count Higher Than 2
Thomas Gehrmann remembers the deluge of mathematical expressions that came cascading down his computer screen one day 20 years ago.He was trying to calculate…
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Particle Accelerator Magnet Discovered That Achieves Record Ramping Speed
Magnets play a critical role in physics research as they help guide the path of particle beams and allow them to collide at high speeds. This collision helps…
Physicists Discover Particle Accelerator Magnet That Ramps Up at Record Speed
Magnets play a critical role in physics research as they help guide the path of particle beams and allow them to collide at high speeds. This collision helps…
A new particle accelerator aims at unexplored atomic territory
Inscribed on an Italian family’s 15th century coat of arms and decorating an ancient Japanese shrine, the Borromean rings are symbolically potent.…
A new particle accelerator aims to unlock secrets of bizarre atomic nuclei
Inscribed on an Italian family’s 15th century coat of arms and decorating an ancient Japanese shrine, the Borromean rings are symbolically potent.…
ISS Uses AR Headset to Upgrade Particle Physics Hardware
Mixed Reality headsets aren’t only for playing VR games on Earth: The astronauts aboard the International Space Station are making use of an Augmented…
‘Impossible’ Particle Adds a Piece to the Strong Force Puzzle
This spring, at a meeting of Syracuse University’s quark physics group, Ivan Polyakov announced that he had uncovered the fingerprints of a semi-mythical…
How particle detectors capture matter’s hidden, beautiful reality
At every moment, subatomic particles stream in unfathomable numbers through your body. Each second, about 100 billion neutrinos from the sun pass…
Speeding up machine learning for particle physics
An ultra-compressed deep neural network on a field-programmable gate array. Credit:…
Physicists dream big with an idea for a particle collider on the moon
If you could peer into a particle physicist’s daydream, you might spy a vision of a giant lunar particle accelerator. Now, researchers have calculated…