The SLAC Summer Institute (SSI) is an annual Summer School tradition since 1973. The theme of the week-long 54th SLAC Summer Institute is “Quantum Probes for a Quantum Universe”. Advances in quantum ...

The International Conference on High Energy Physics (ICHEP) is the flagship event in the field of particle physics, organized under the auspices of the C11 commission of the International Union of ...

A bound galaxy protocluster with hot, X-ray-emitting gas has been found just one billion years after the Big Bang.

In the summer of 1968, while a visitor in CERN’s theory division, Gabriele Veneziano wrote a paper titled “Construction of a crossing-symmetric, Regge behaved amplitude for linearly-rising ...

André de Gouvêa explains why neutrino masses imply the existence of new fundamental fields. Misfits Massive neutrinos are not part of the Standard Model. Credit: Symmetry After all these years, ...

Louis Lyons traces the origins of the “five sigma” criterion in particle physics, and asks whether it remains a relevant marker for claiming the discovery of new physics. Disentanglement A Jackson ...

Recent studies of exotic nuclides using traps and lasers at CERN’s ISOLDE facility are not only helping researchers understand nuclear structure, explain David Lunney and Gerda Neyens, but also offer ...

Detectors similar to those used to hunt for sterile neutrinos could help guard against the extraction of plutonium-239 for nuclear weapons, writes Patrick Huber. Technology demonstration Technicians ...

Alexander Lenz argues that the charm quark is an experimental and theoretical enigma that has the potential to shed light on the matter–antimatter asymmetry in the universe. Threading the needle The ...

In lead collisions at the LHC, some of the strongest electromagnetic fields in the universe bombard the inside of the beam pipe with radioactive gold. By following the collision fragments, John Jowett ...

Michèle Levi takes a tour through the past, present and future of Effective Field Theory, with applications ranging from LHC physics to cosmology. LHC physics Effective field theory enables a deeper ...

Peter Thirolf, Benedict Seiferle and Lars von der Wense describe how recent progress in understanding thorium’s nuclear structure, and new upcoming results, could enable an ultra-accurate nuclear ...