Particle accelerators are often framed as exotic machines built only to chase obscure particles, but they are really precision tools that use electric fields and magnets to steer tiny beams of matter ...

Particle accelerators, also known as particle colliders or atom smashers, have been responsible for some of the most exciting physics findings over the past century, including the discovery of the ...

You have heard about Fermilab, accelerators, quarks and the Big Bang. But how do all those things fit together? If you only knew a scientist whom you could ask... More than a year ago, physicist Peter ...

US researchers have successfully accelerated and stored the first proton beams inside a specialized ...

Jefferson Lab accelerator physicists to partner with national lab, university and industry colleagues for development of compact SRF accelerators for industrial settings NEWPORT NEWS, VA – ...

Researchers in the US have revealed that an emerging class of quantum sensors, called ...

As the massive 95-metric ton coldbox completed its cross-ocean journey, the crowd at Fermilab braving frigid winter temperatures last week could imagine what the particle accelerator being chilled to ...

ANN ARBOR, Mich.–University of Michigan physicists played a leading role in the discovery of a new particle, the Omega b baryon, which is an exotic relative of the proton. It was detected for the ...