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04/01/05

Barry Barish: building a global design effort

On March 18, before 400-plus people at the Linear Collider Workshop in Palo Alto, Jonathan Dorfan, chair of the International Committee for Future Accelerators, offered me the job as director of th

04/01/05

Feedback

Symmetry has now been published for six months. It has been a whirlwind beginning for this new type of collaborative venture for SLAC and Fermilab.

03/01/05

Muons, gluons, futons

When my wife is intrigued by the cover of a particle physics magazine, as she was with the February issue of symmetry, you know your editors and designers are doing a good job.

Curiouser and curiouser: a riddle at the ALICE detector

12/09/25

In 2023, the ALICE experiment was ready for their best year yet, until a mysterious signal threatened everything. As the LHC wraps up its 2025 lead-ion run, physicists recall how they worked together to solve the puzzle.