As the name suggests, particle accelerators involve accelerating subatomic particles to incredibly high speeds and smashing ...

A lot of the science from our accelerators is published long after collisions end, so storing experimental data for future ...

The ALICE Collaboration is a winner of the 2025 Gizmodo Science Fair for transforming lead into gold for a fraction of a ...

Physicists are eyeing charged gravitinos—ultra-heavy, stable particles from supergravity theory—as possible Dark Matter ...

Four Notre Dame faculty members have received National Science Federation CAREER awards to support ambitious projects in ...

Scientists propose a bold new dark matter candidate: the superheavy, charged gravitino, detectable in experiments like JUNO and DUNE.

If you would like to learn more about how the Nobel Prize for Physics is awarded, check out this profile of Lars Brink, who served on the Nobel Committee for Physics on eight occasions.

Facilities that make particles called B mesons may seem obscure, but they could help explain why there is more matter than ...

Nobel laureate Dr. George Smoot, who conducted groundbreaking research into the origins of the universe, has died. He had ...

The key test passed by sPHENIX to prove it is ready to measure the properties of quark-gluon plasma is called a "standard candle" in particle physics. This isn't to be confused with Type 1a supernovas ...

Our Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology (IPPP) will celebrate its 25th anniversary next week, recognising a ...

A technician working on the OPAL detector, one of the four particle detectors of the LEP collider. This photo was taken in 1989 and the LEP began ...