Using the world's most powerful particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider, scientists have found that the quark-gluon ...

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

Exploring Lepton Flavor ViolationLed by researchers from Sun Yat-sen University, the Institute of Modern Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences ...

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 ...

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

Scientists at Fermilab’s MicroBooNE experiment have ruled out the existence of the elusive sterile neutrino, a particle proposed for decades to explain puzzling neutrino behavior. Their high-precision ...

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

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 ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: It used to be thought that bizarre interactions between subatomic particles known as neutrinos could be explained by another type of neutrino. The ...

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

Muon g-2 Theory Initiative chair Aida El-Khadra discusses conflicting datasets, disparate calculations and hot competition ...