The advance hints at the possibility of portable muon-making devices that could help peer through solid materials for hidden contraband.

A recent study offers proof of feasibility for using cosmic radiation detectors to discover underground spaces. The detectors ...

In a collaboration that demonstrates the power of innovation and teamwork, physicists and engineers at the Department of ...

In the mid-1960s, the Nobel Prize–winning physicist Luis Alvarez had a wild idea. He proposed using muons, highly penetrating subatomic particles created when cosmic rays strike Earth’s atmosphere, to ...

2024 JSA Postdoctoral Prize Winner Debaditya Biswas will combine different particle identification methods with machine learning to detect muons hidden in a sea of pions NEWPORT NEWS, VA – When ...

This applies to the Shanghai Outer Ring Tunnel: a major travel artery in China’s largest city, which runs for almost 3 km beneath the Huangpu River. Completed in 2023, the submerged section of the ...

Israeli researchers use muon detectors, which detect elementary particles akin to heavy electrons, to reveal subterranean ...

A team of Israeli researchers has developed a breakthrough that could transform archaeology: the ability to map underground ...

When archaeology meets physics, new depths are revealed A technological breakthrough at Tel Aviv University offers ...

From the pyramids in Egypt, through the Maya cities in South America, to ancient sites in Israel, archaeologists struggle to ...

The detector, known as the Jiangmen Underground neutrino Observatory, or JUNO, is located in between two huge nuclear plants at Yangjian and Taishan. Both of those fission plants create their own ...

When Debaditya Biswas was a high school student in India, his math teacher, Dr. Satyabrata Das, sparked his interest in physics. "Before I joined his class, I was really not sure what I was going to ...