The largest liquid-argon neutrino detector in the world has just recorded its first particle tracks, signaling the start of a new chapter in the story of the international Deep Underground Neutrino ...

Particles colliding in accelerators produce numerous cascades of secondary particles. The electronics processing the signals avalanching in from the detectors then have a fraction of a second in which ...

Muons are one of the key subatomic particles for discovering new physics, but tracking them after particle collisions can be difficult and prone to error. A new study ...

One of the major criticisms of string theory is that it cannot presently be experimentally verified. Strings themselves—if they even exist—are thought to be much too small to detect using even the ...

A Swiss-led team has tested the first prototype of PLATON, a particle detector using plenoptic camera technology and single-photon sensors to create ultrafast, high-resolution 3D images in unsegmented ...

When a ‘scanner’ called Minnie van der Merwe handed Rosemary Brown a photographic slide with an unusual configuration of particle tracks, the physicist knew that she was on to something. “I looked ...

Scientists working at CERN have started tests of a new neutrino detector prototype that uses a promising technology called “dual phase.” Advances in subatomic physics heavily depend on ingenuity and ...

NOTE: The following news release on the first particle tracks observed in a new prototype neutrino detector was issued jointly by Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and CERN, the European ...