In March 2024, the CERN Research Board gave the go-ahead for the BDF project, a beam dump installation acting as a high-intensity fixed target. Supplied with proton beams by the Super Proton ...

The weak nuclear force doesn't play by the normal rules — and, in fact, it breaks one of the biggest rules of all.

India's ambitious Neutrino Observatory project in Tamil Nadu lies in limbo after two decades of preparation, facing political ...

A recent Physical Review Letters publication presents a thorough analysis of MicroBooNE detector data, investigating the anomalous surplus of neutrino-like events detected by the preceding MiniBooNE ...

Neutrinos are fundamental particles characterized by no electric charge and very small masses, which are known to interact with other matter via the weak force or gravity. While these particles have ...

It is just over a year since Cern, home to the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), became the base for the three-year pilot phase of the Open Quantum Institute (OQI). The OQI is a multi-stakeholder, global, ...

But what have been the most significant physics prizes of the 21st century? I’m including 2000 as part of this century (ignoring pedants who say it didn’t start till 1 January 2001 ). During that time ...

In late 2023, Wojciech Brylinski was analyzing data from the NA61/SHINE collaboration at CERN for his thesis when he noticed an unexpected anomaly—a strikingly large imbalance between charged and ...

In the beginning, the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.—Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Humans have many ...

ABSTRACT: The Standard Model of particle physics assumes that fundamental fermions are point particles with zero radius, no spatial dimensions, and infinite matter density. This alternative model ...

(Reuters) - Using an observatory under construction deep beneath the Mediterranean Sea near Sicily, scientists have detected a ghostly subatomic particle called a neutrino boasting record-breaking ...

A neutrino from space recently plunged into the Mediterranean Sea with an energy that blows all other known neutrinos out of the water. Packing a punch of some 220 million billion electron volts, this ...