China’s decision to halt work on what was meant to be the world’s largest particle accelerator marked a sharp turn in the ...

Scientists recently fired up the world's smallest particle accelerator for the first time. The tiny technological triumph, which is around the size of a small coin, could open the door to a wide range ...

China’s decision to halt work on what was meant to be the world’s largest particle accelerator has reshaped the global race ...

A microchip with the electron-accelerating structures with, in comparison, a one cent coin. If you think of a particle accelerator, what may come to mind is something like CERN’s Large Hadron Collider ...

Now that they’ve identified the Higgs boson, scientists at the Large Hadron Collider have set their sights on an even more elusive target. All around us is dark matter and dark energy—the invisible ...

The first Physics World Particle & Nuclear Briefing contains the best of our recent coverage of these fascinating parts of physics, as Physics World editor-in-chief Matin Durrani explains Stay tuned ...

What have we learnt about the Higgs boson since it was discovered in 2012? Tulika Bose (TB): The question we have been working towards in the past decade is whether it is a “Standard Model” Higgs ...

In the first joint result from the world's two leading particle colliders, scientists have determined the mass of the heaviest elementary particle, the top quark. The measurement was made using the ...

The world's largest atom smasher has revealed a new kind of particle, and so far, it leads a charmed existence. The discovery of the particle, which is made up of two so-called charm quarks, validates ...