The Big Bang created equal amounts of matter and antimatter. So, why is there so much more matter than antimatter in the Universe? Irfu is participating in the preparation of Hyper-Kamiokande, a ...

A decade ago, Art McDonald and his team gained worldwide recognition for a neutrino discovery that helped establish Canada and Queen’s as leaders in physics.

KINGSTON — The 10-year anniversary of Queen’s University Prof. Emeritus Art McDonald’s Nobel Prize was an opportunity to look ...

Deep underneath a granite hill in southern China, an enormous detector is sniffing out the secrets of the universe. This futuristic underground observatory has been built with the sole purpose of ...

The award, sponsored by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, provides $1.3 million in funding over five years to each of ...

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

The experimental neutrino physics group is involved in three experiments around the world, described below. Our research involves the study of fundamental subatomic particles called neutrinos. In ...

The Big Bang may have spawned these theoretical black holes, whose lives are thought to end in a burst of extremely energetic particles.

Neutrinos are very common fundamental particles included in the Standard Model of particle physics. Measuring their ...