A new type of particle collider known as a muon collider considered a wild idea a decade ago is winning over skeptics as scientists find solutions to the machine's many technological challenges.
When I began my professional life as a civil engineer, I thought that I would spend my career building bridges. As it turned out, thats what Im doing—only the bridges that I help build are very different from those I studied in engineering school.
Electrons, positrons, protons, antiprotons: These particles have formed the basis for much of the particle physics research and many of the discoveries of the past hundred years. Will there be other particles that play a similar role in the future?
