The paper was a product of the Particle Physics Community Planning ... deep underground to shield them from cosmic rays and background radiation. This makes it easier to isolate the particles ...

It produces an alpha particle (or Helium-4 nucleus) and a neutron, and releases 17.6 megaelectron volt (MeV) of energy in the form of kinetic energy of the products (3.5 MeV to alpha particle and 14.1 ...

Their paper, published in Physical Review Letters, suggests that this measurement could help to explore the connection between cosmic inflation and particle physics. "One of the most astonishing ...

Calling on his background in both particle physics and writing, Riordan has authored (and edited) a number of science books, including The Hunting of the Quark: A True Story of Modern Physics ...

In 1990, the largest internet site in Europe was CERN, a particle physics laboratory in Geneva. Tim Berners-Lee was a researcher there, and he thought he had a way to help organize information on ...