3 Questions: Marking the 10th anniversary of the Higgs boson discovery
Christoph Paus, the MIT physicist who co-led the effort to detect the particle, looks ahead to the next 10 years.
Boosting computing power for the future of particle physics
Prototype machine-learning technology co-developed by MIT scientists speeds processing by up to 175 times over traditional methods.
3 Questions: Philip Harris on first observation of long-predicted Higgs boson decay
Seeing Higgs boson decay required “magic-eye” focus; may help physicists understand why the universe has mass.
Understanding the proton's weak side
Research from the Qweak experiment provides a precision measurement of the proton’s weak charge. narrows the search for new physics.
MIT physicists observe electroweak production of same-sign W boson pairs
With the aid of the Compact Muon Solenid detector at the Large Hadron Collider, a Laboratory for Nuclear Science-led group seeks to further understand the building blocks of matter.
First open-access data from large collider confirm subatomic particle patterns
CERN Open Data Portal results reveal predictable patterns from colliding high-energy protons.
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Particle hunter
Now that the Higgs boson has come to light, Markus Klute is looking at physics beyond the Standard Model.
Music of the (data) spheres
A new MIT project taps into particle collisions to generate music and forge harmony between science and art.
Latest experiment at Large Hadron Collider reports first results
Scientists precisely count particles produced in a typical proton collision.
New tabletop detector “sees” single electrons
Magnet-based setup may help detect the elusive mass of neutrinos.
Particle detector finds hints of dark matter in space
Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer detects positrons in cosmic ray flux that hint at dark matter's origin.
Finding a piece of the proton-spin puzzle
Particle physicists measure the spin contribution of the proton’s antiquark.
Fresh evidence suggests particle discovered in 2012 is the Higgs boson
Findings confirm that a particle decays to fermions, as predicted by the Standard Model.
Proving quantum computers feasible
With a new contribution to probability theory, researchers show that relatively simple physical systems could yield powerful quantum computers.