03/24/20 Scientists search for origin of proton mass Only 1% of the mass of the proton comes from the Higgs field. ALICE scientists examine a process that could help explain the rest.
05/14/19 Casting a wide net In their quest to discover physics beyond the Standard Model, physicists weigh the pros and cons of different search strategies.
04/11/19 LHCb results add clues to pentaquark mystery A re-examination of a particle discovered in 2015 has scientists debating its true identity.
11/06/18 The quest to test quantum entanglement Quantum entanglement, doubted by Einstein, has passed increasingly stringent tests.
02/27/18 Looking for nothing to test gravity When they look for violations of Einstein’s general relativity, physicists deliberately plan experiments to find nothing at all.
05/16/17 The facts and nothing but the facts At a recent workshop on blind analysis, researchers discussed how to keep their expectations out of their results.
04/18/17 A new search to watch from LHCb A new result from the LHCb experiment could be an early indicator of an inconsistency in the Standard Model.
02/14/17 LHCb observes rare decay Standard Model predictions align with the LHCb experiment’s observation of an uncommon decay.
12/20/16 2016 year in particle physics Scientists furthered studies of the Higgs boson, neutrinos, dark matter, dark energy and cosmic inflation and continued the search for undiscovered particles, forces and principles.
09/16/16 The secret lives of long-lived particles A theoretical species of particle might answer nearly every question about our cosmos—if scientists can find it.
08/26/16 Winners declared in SUSY bet Physicists exchanged cognac in Copenhagen at the conclusion of a bet about supersymmetry and the LHC.
08/05/16 LHC bump fades with more data Possible signs of new particle seem to have washed out in an influx of new data.
07/27/16 The Atomki anomaly A result from an experiment in Hungary catches the attention of a group of theorists in the United States.
06/29/16 LHCb discovers family of tetraquarks Researchers found four new particles made of the same four building blocks.
