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Is the neutrino its own antiparticle?
The mysterious particle could hold the key to why matter won out over antimatter in the early universe. Almost every particle has an...
Jan 21, 20164 min read
RHIC Particle Smashups Find that Shape Matters
Peering into the seething soup of primordial matter created in particle collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC)—an "atom...
Dec 9, 20156 min read
Producing Cold Electron Beams to Increase Collision Rates at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider
Accelerated ion beams heat up. As the particles that make up the beam move around and scatter off of one another, some speed up while...
Dec 7, 20157 min read
‘Material universe’ yields surprising new particle
An international team of researchers has predicted the existence of a new type of particle called the type-II Weyl fermion in metallic...
Nov 27, 20155 min read
Particle accelerator on a microchip
The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation has awarded 13.5 million US dollars (12.6 million euros) to promote the development of a particle...
Nov 24, 20154 min read
Physicists Measure Force that Makes Antimatter Stick Together
Peering at the debris from particle collisions that recreate the conditions of the very early universe, scientists have for the first...
Nov 5, 20154 min read
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