Kathryn Jepsen
April 2013
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April 23, 2013breaking: Icy experiment catches record-energy neutrinosThe IceCube experiment makes what could be an important step toward using neutrinos to find the source of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays.
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April 15, 2013breaking: Underground experiment sees possible hints of dark matterThe Cryogenic Dark Matter Search experiment adds new intrigue to the hunt for dark matter.
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April 9, 2013day in the life: Arturo Gomez: Life among the telescopesArturo Gomez has spent more than 40 years working with visiting astronomers at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile.
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April 3, 2013breaking: AMS tiptoes toward answer to dark-matter questionThe first result from the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer experiment improves on previous measurements, promises precise future results.
March 2013
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March 27, 2013breaking: NOvA neutrino detector sees first particlesThe NOvA neutrino detector, currently under construction, has already begun to take data from cosmic rays.
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March 26, 2013breaking: OPERA snags third tau neutrinoFor the third time since the OPERA detector began receiving beam in 2006, the experiment has caught a muon neutrino oscillating into a tau neutrino.
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March 6, 2013breaking: Higgs-like particle still looking like the HiggsScientists have started to exclude some of the more exotic scenarios for the Higgs-like boson.
February 2013
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February 26, 2013logbook: Higgs-like particleEarly in the summer of 2012, excitement reached a peak as members of the CMS and ATLAS collaborations confirmed among themselves that they would soon announce the discovery of what looked like the Higgs boson.
January 2013
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January 30, 2013signal to background: Tiny bubblesA hipster detector searches for the crystalline “plink” of dark matter.
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January 22, 2013essay: A galaxy with a viewA physicist, a software developer and a writer step outside one night to take in nature’s beauty at a mountaintop observatory in Chile.
December 2012
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December 11, 2012breaking: Fundamental Physics Prize recognizes Higgs huntersThe Fundamental Physics Prize Foundation will honor leaders at the Large Hadron Collider and its CMS and ATLAS experiments with a special $3 million prize.
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December 11, 2012explain it in 60 seconds: Decay channelWhen particles decay, they transform into lighter particles. Physicists can predict how often a particle will decay into certain end products.
November 2012
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November 27, 2012signal to background: Thanksgiving in the Main Control RoomThe daughter of the Tevatron particle collider’s Mr. Fix-It continues a tradition of providing cheer for operators stuck at work on the holiday.
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November 5, 2012feature: Voyage to SNOLABA growing number of scientists are looking for ways to join a dream team of experiments in a unique laboratory a mile and a half underground in Ontario. There, they seek to solve some of the biggest mysteries in physics today, including the case of missing dark matter.
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November 5, 2012breaking: East Coasters brave Hurricane Sandy to keep neutrino project on scheduleHurricane Sandy hit the night before an important project review, but scientists, engineers and project personnel didn't let that stand in their way.
September 2012
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September 27, 2012breaking: Researchers propose machine for a clean, mean neutrino beamScientists hope to enlist the help of muons in their quest to find a fourth type of neutrino.
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September 12, 2012signal to background: NOvA: Exploring neutrino mysteriesOn Monday, Sept. 10, crews finished installing the first block of the 14-kiloton NOvA detector. What will the experiment do?
August 2012
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August 31, 2012signal to background: A love of science, conveyed through YouTubeWhen Michael Wilson, 29, got interested in string theory, he had a very Millennial response: He decided to make a music video about it.
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August 29, 2012breaking: Summer school gives African students glimpse into lives in physicsThis month, about 30 instructors and 50 students traveled from around Africa and the rest of the world to gather in Ghana for three and a half weeks of training in physics and computing.
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August 27, 2012breaking: Pierre Auger Observatory tests particle knowledge beyond reach of LHCScientists at the Pierre Auger Observatory recently tested the theory that governs the behavior of protons at energies inaccessible at the Large Hadron Collider.
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