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Closing in on Elusive Particles

September 9, 2019

Major steps forward in understanding neutrino properties

Strange Warping Geometry Helps to Push Scientific Boundaries

July 12, 2019

Researchers have built an electronic array on a microchip that simulates particle interactions in a hyperbolic plane

Beyond the WIMP: Unique Crystals Could Expand the Search for Dark Matter

March 22, 2018

Proposed detector technology would be sensitive to an unexplored range of particle masses

Fermilab’s Muon G-2 Experiment Officially Starts Up

February 9, 2018

The experiment will send particles called muons—heavier cousins of the electron—around a 50-foot-wide muon storag...

Fermilab Scientists Discover New Four-Flavor Particle

February 25, 2016

DZero announces the newest member of the tetraquark family.

Ground-Breaking Research Could Challenge Underlying Principles of Physics

November 24, 2015

Professor has helped to devise the first calculation of how the behavior of kaons differs when matter is swapped out for...

Laser-Wielding Physicists Seize Control of Atoms’ Behavior

October 7, 2015

Physicists have wondered in recent years if they could control how atoms interact using light. Now they know that they can.&n...

After a Half Century, the Exotic Pentaquark Particle is Found

August 25, 2015

The pentaquark was detected at the LHC by scientists carrying out the "beauty" experiment

The Wild West of Physics

January 26, 2015

The next frontier in physics may require teeny-tiny answers to big questions, and vice versa.

First Indirect Evidence of So-Far Undetected Strange Baryons

August 22, 2014

"Invisible" particles containing at least one strange quark lower the temperature at which other particles "freeze out" from ...

Scientists Complete the Top Quark Puzzle

February 25, 2014

Top quarks are the heaviest and among the most puzzling elementary particles. ...

Experiment in Japan to Build Upon University's Decades-Long Legacy of Particle Research

November 1, 2013

Three generations of University of Chicago physicists have spent decades painstakingly cataloging the characteristics of a fa...

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