We all like hearing about the biggest and the smallest, the heaviest and the lightest, as these categories represent the extremes of the universe…and they usually they are great for comparisons. Meet ...

Long before he would be awarded a Nobel Prize, Martin L. Perl liked to do his own plumbing repairs. He usually had spare time, and he clearly knew the physics, his oldest son, Jed, recalled. And ...

In a landmark result, the CMS collaboration reports the first observation of tau lepton pair production via photon-photon fusion in proton collisions, opening new avenues for studying these elusive ...

The discovery of an elementary particle that looked a lot like the electron, but had 3500 times its mass stunned most particle physicists three decades ago. Martin Perl, who received the 1995 Nobel ...

Simulating data in particle physics is expensive and not perfectly accurate. To get around this, researchers are now exploring the use of foundation models - large AI models trained in a general, task ...

Jet constituents are given as the input to a ML model to predict properties of the hadronically decaying tau leptons. In order to find rare processes from collider data, scientists use computer ...

Searches for physics beyond the Standard Model (BSM) are one of the main aims of the ATLAS scientific program at the LHC. In this context, a plethora of experiments are performed using the ...

Highly energetic: visualization of the light gathered from the 2.6 PeV event in IceCube. The image shows a portion of the vertical strings of photomultipliers that make up the detector array.

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Using a beam shot through the Earth's crust, physicists have found the first direct proof of a metamorphosis between two of the three known types of neutrinos—those known as ‘muon’ and ‘tau’ flavours ...