Jun 18, 2020 by News Staff

Physicists from the ATLAS Collaboration CERN’s Large Hadron Collider have uncovered strong evidence of the production of four top quarks. This rare process...

Jan 23, 2020 by Enrico de Lazaro

An underground particle detector called the Borexino detector has detected 53 antielectron neutrinos emanating from the Earth, so-called geoneutrinos. The...

Oct 3, 2019 by News Staff

IceCube 170922A, a high-energy neutrino detected by the IceCube Neutrino Observatory in 2017, was generated by a jet-jet collision within TXS 0506+056,...

Aug 23, 2019 by News Staff

Using data from the large scale structure of galaxies, the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), Type Ia supernovae, and Big Bang nucleosynthesis, a team...

Apr 26, 2019 by News Staff

The half-life of a process is the time after which half of the radioactive nuclei present in a sample have decayed away. Using the XENON1T dark-matter...

Jul 13, 2018 by News Staff

A large multinational team of astronomers has found the first evidence of a source of super-energetic neutrino particles: a distant blazar — the...

Mar 27, 2018 by News Staff

Physicists from the NA62 Collaboration at CERN reported today that they had observed a candidate event of an extremely rare charged kaon decay (K+ →...

Nov 23, 2017 by News Staff

Neutrinos are subatomic particles that are famous for passing through anything and everything. Now, physicists have demonstrated that our planet stops...

Aug 4, 2017 by News Staff

A team of physicists with the COHERENT collaboration is the first to detect and characterize coherent elastic scattering of low-energy neutrinos off atomic...

Aug 8, 2016 by News Staff

Physicists from the NOvA collaboration have announced a new result that could improve our understanding of the behavior of neutrinos. NOvA detector. Image...

Aug 21, 2015 by News Staff

Physicists using the IceCube Neutrino Observatory – a cubic-kilometer-sized detector sunk into the ice sheet at the South Pole – have announced...

Jul 20, 2015 by News Staff

The Weyl fermion – an elusive massless particle theorized 85 years ago – has been confirmed by direct observations for the first time. A detector...

Aug 31, 2014 by News Staff

A multinational collaboration of physicists has directly detected neutrinos created by the proton-proton fusion process going on at the heart of the Sun. Physicists...

Jun 26, 2014 by News Staff

Astronomers using ESA’s XMM-Newton and NASA’s Chandra X-ray observatories have detected an unidentified X-ray emission line – a spike...

Nov 22, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

Physicists using the IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole have detected for the first time mysterious, high-energy neutrinos that originate outside...

May 7, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

According to a new study submitted for publication in Physical Review Letters (arXiv.org version), two rare events observed in 2011 and 2012 by the IceCube...

Apr 10, 2013 by News Staff

What will soon be the most powerful neutrino detector in the U.S. has recorded its first 3D images of particles. This 3D image shows a cosmic-ray muon...

Aug 16, 2011 by News Staff

Scientists in a lab with Daya Bay Nuclear Power Station in southern Guangdong Province have found neutrino through two detecting instruments, which is...