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Before the RHIC shut down, it was the only operational particle collider in the U.S. and one of two heavy-ion colliders in the world, the other being the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Switzerland.
After years of confusion, a new study confirms the proton is tinier than once thought. That enables a test of the standard model of particle physics.
OpenAI's GPT-5.2 derived a new formula for gluon interactions, overturning assumptions of zero amplitude and advancing theoretical physics.
NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to Esra Barlas Yücel, a researcher at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, about Fermilab's most precise measurements of the muon particle's magnetic wobble. It's ...
In 1930, a young physicist named Carl D. Anderson was tasked by his mentor with measuring the energies of cosmic ...
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A new data center has been built at IN2P3, France’s nuclear and particle physics research body. The VIL3 data center, at ...