Using the world's most powerful particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider, scientists have found that the quark-gluon plasma that filled the universe just after the Big Bang really was a ...

Klaus Kirch is head of the Laboratory for Particle Physics in the PSI Center for Neutron and Muon Sciences and a professor at ETH Zurich. He is director of the now-approved NCCR Muoniverse.

The Swiss National Science Foundation has approved the funding application of a large consortium led by the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI and the ...

In its first moments, the infant universe was a trillion-degree-hot soup of quarks and gluons. These elementary particles ...

Columnist Natalie Wolchover checks in with particle physicists more than a decade after the field entered a profound crisis.

Unless you're involved in the study of particle physics or a similar field, there's a good chance you might never have heard of a muon. Similar to ...

You might think of x-rays as the go-to particle to see through solid objects. But there's a subatomic particle out there that ...

An accelerator physicist at a particle accelerator, a barrister fighting criminal cases, a waiter at a police rehab centre, and an engineer working in flood risk management; these are the varied hats ...

The ISIS Neutron and Muon source is a proton particle accelerator, which is used to eventually generate intense beams of ...

Brookhaven National Laboratory have been named 2025 Fellows of the American Physical Society (APS). The honor recognizes their excellence in physics and exceptional service to the physics community.

But only in the last 70 years have we known for certain they were there. In 1956, physicists Clyde Cowan and Frederick Reines ...