Over the weekend, a detector in the Gran Sasso facility in Italy detected a single tau neutrino in a beam that should have been purely muon neutrinos. That may...
How huge particle detectors actually detect tiny particles
In part one of our series on particle smashers, we described how accelerators either bring together two light particles (like protons) to study new particles, or two heavy nuclei (like gold)...
LHC gears up for a long run at half power before long pause
Last week, the people in charge of CERN, the European physics lab that is responsible for the highest energy particle collider on the planet, met to decide a course of action for the coming years. Faced with the reality that equipment upgrades would be necessary before the Large Hadron Collider...
