The muon collider was once dismissed as impossible, but is now gaining steam as the successor to the Large Hadron Collider.

Nathan Whitehorn was not in a good place. It was 2012 and he had just finished his PhD analyzing data from the IceCube Neutrino Observatory in Antarctica. He'd been trying to find neutrinos (weakly ...

Plans for a 91-kilometre European particle accelerator are facing a serious challenge after the German government said that the project was unaffordable. CERN, the European particle-physics laboratory ...

The world's largest particle smasher is due an upgrade, but is there anything left to discover?

As a physicist working at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at Cern, one of the most frequent questions I am asked is “When are you going to find something?” Resisting the temptation to sarcastically ...

Britain is preparing to cancel its contribution to one of the Large Hadron Collider's next major upgrades.

Using cutting-edge AI, Loukas Gouskos aims to probe whether the Higgs boson holds the key to why the universe is made of ...

Elementary particle physics reflects the human quest to understand the basic building blocks of nature and the rules that govern the physical world. This quest has led not only to critical scientific ...

Researchers say they are alarmed by reports that the Department of Energy’s Office of Science, the largest U.S. funder of the ...

The Committee on Elementary-Particle Physics was convened by the National Research Council's Board on Physics and Astronomy to assess the field of elementary-particle physics as part of the survey ...