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11/12/20
Quanta

What is a particle?

It has been thought of as many things: a pointlike object, an excitation of a field, a speck of pure math that has cut into reality.

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Muons: Emblems of discovery

01/13/26
Diana Kwon

Once a surprise to physicists, these particles are useful tools inside and outside the realm of particle physics. 

Illustration of two people sitting at table cherry pie: deconstruction
05/14/13

The cherry pie collider

What’s the next step in particle colliders? Symmetry takes a trip into the kitchen pantry to find out.

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05/12/13

The top 40 physics hits of 2012

The Higgs boson is a popular subject among the most-cited physics papers of 2012, but a particle simulation manual takes the top spot.

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05/08/13

The Fellowship of the Ring

The Muon g-2 experiment kicks off this summer with the move of a 50-foot-wide ring-shaped cryostat from New York to Illinois.

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05/07/13

A knack for exploring

With a solid grounding in physics, Thomas Humphrey shares the fun of discovery at San Francisco’s Exploratorium.

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04/30/13

Free from the start

Since CERN released the World Wide Web without royalties 20 years ago, the technology has flourished.

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04/23/13

Plasma acceleration

Like surfers on huge ocean waves, electrons can ride waves of plasma to very high energies.

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04/19/13

Q&A with Fabiola Gianotti, Higgs hunter

Symmetry sits down with Fabiola Gianotti, who recently finished an eventful four years as spokesperson for the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider.

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