Particle accelerators, also known as particle colliders or atom smashers, have been responsible for some of the most exciting physics findings over the past century, including the discovery of the ...

The ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider is one of the machine's two big all-purpose detectors. It took three years for the world's most powerful particle accelerator, the Large Hadron ...

When the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) began operations, a small but noisy group of people tried to stop it out of fear. Their reasoning: The energies produced as protons slammed into each other at ...

Scientists in southern China are planning to create machines that will be used to unravel the mysteries of the building blocks of the universe. They said two ring-shaped electron-ion colliders – one ...

Two of the largest machines ever conceived by scientists are being reported by one of the world's leading experts on particle colliders, the massive and expensive machines used to explore inner ...

Some historical perspective will highlight the special role of colliders in fundamental physics. The goal of experimental work in fundamental physics, crudely speaking, is to find out what the smallest ...

At a fundamental level, what is our Universe made of? This question has driven physics forward for centuries. Even with all the advances we've made, we still don't know it all. While the Large Hadron ...

Positronic breakthrough: PSI’s Henrique Garcia Rodrigues adjusts the high-temperature-superconductor solenoid that has been built as part of a new positron source. (Courtesy: Paul Scherrer ...

Crisis, what crisis? The future of particle physics has been a major talking point of late, with decisions on next-generation high-energy colliders contrasting with skepticism as to whether such ...