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A collaborative ecosystem

04/23/24

Emily Ayshford

Physicists work with computer scientists in academia and industry to advance machine learning.

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04/18/24

Physics vocabulary: AI edition

Don’t know your convolutional neural networks from your boosted decision trees? Symmetry is here to help.

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04/17/24

Symmetry’s guide to AI in particle physics and astrophysics

In the coming weeks, Symmetry will explore the ways scientists are using artificial intelligence to advance particle physics and astrophysics—in a series of articles written and illustrated entirely by humans.

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04/10/24

‘This is our Muon Shot’

The US physics community dreams of building a muon collider.

DESI has made the largest 3D map of our universe to date

04/04/24

First results from DESI make the most precise measurement of our expanding universe

With just its first year of data, DESI has surpassed all previous 3D spectroscopic maps combined and confirmed the basics of our best model of the universe.

04/03/24

SLAC completes construction of the largest digital camera ever built for astronomy

Once set in place atop a telescope in Chile, the 3,200-megapixel LSST Camera will help researchers better understand dark matter, dark energy and other mysteries of our universe.

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03/26/24

A harsh environment for life, an ideal environment for research

The Particle Physics Project Prioritization Panel recently recommended, among their top priorities for the next decade, moving forward with two experiments based at the South Pole.

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03/19/24

A trio of paths toward the discovery machine of the future

An advisory committee recommends the US work to advance three key areas of emerging accelerator technology.

Maxim Marchevsky (left) and Soren Prestemon discussing an experimental setup to test the sensitivity of a temperature monitoring system for a high temperature superconducting magnet.

03/11/24

Preventing magnet meltdowns before they can start

Berkeley Lab researchers are developing an approach to avoid sudden, potentially destructive energy releases in a new generation of superconducting magnets.

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