Neutrino oscillation is weird, but it may be weird in a useful way, because it might allow physicists to probe certain ...

The top quark’s extreme mass makes it decay almost immediately after it is produced. “The top and antitop quarks just have ...

A decade in the making, this upgraded detector will explore the properties of the quark-gluon plasma that formed a millionth ...

As the story of quarkonia draws to a close, John Ellis shares personal recollections of five decades of discoveries and ...

Michael Riordan surveys the extraordinary year of 1964, which saw the birth of the quark model, the invention of the Higgs ...

The sPHENIX detector passed calibration, paving the way to study quark-gluon plasma and unlock secrets of the early universe.

A groundbreaking particle detector in New York, known as sPHENIX, has successfully passed a crucial standard candle test, ...

A new particle detector has passed a crucial test, demonstrating it's ready to start investigating quark-gluon plasma, the ...

“There’s a lot of meanings for ‘small,’” says Janet Conrad, a particle physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ...

The sPHENIX detector is the latest experiment at RHIC. It is designed to record the products of high-speed collisions between heavy ions. From this debris, scientists aim to reconstruct the properties ...

In a recent paper for the Journal of High Energy Physics, researchers with the sPHENIX Collaboration announced that it had ...

A new and powerful particle detector just passed a critical test in its goal to decipher the ingredients of the early universe. The sPHENIX detector is the newest experiment at Brookhaven National ...