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Curiouser and curiouser: a riddle at the ALICE detector

12/09/25

Sarah Charley

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.

06/11/15

Q&A: New director-general of KEK

Masanori Yamauchi started his three-year term as head of Japan’s major center of particle physics research this spring.

06/10/15

LHC physicists preserve Native American voices

Physicists are using LHC detector technology to retrieve Native American music from old recordings.

06/09/15

Japan’s next big neutrino project

The proposed Hyper-K experiment would dwarf its predecessor.

06/05/15

Steady to a fault

How do accelerators survive in some of the most earthquake-prone regions on Earth?

06/04/15

The universe at your fingertips

Raw images from the DECam Legacy Survey’s new image archive will appear online the day after they are taken.

06/01/15

Inside particle detectors: magnets

Physicist Jim Pivarski explains how particle detectors tell us about the smallest constituents of matter.

05/29/15

Inside particle detectors: calorimeters

Physicist Jim Pivarski explains how particle detectors tell us about the smallest constituents of matter.

05/28/15

Inside particle detectors: trackers

Physicist Jim Pivarski explains how particle detectors tell us about the smallest constituents of matter.

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