particle accelerators

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In 1930, a young physicist named Carl D. Anderson was tasked by his mentor with measuring the energies…

Scientists are using “trapped ions” in highly precise experiments to search for a new, fifth force of nature…

Impossibly powerful ‘ghost particle’ that slammed into Earth may have come from an exploding black hole — and it could upend both particle physics and cosmology