The ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider is one of the machine's two big all-purpose detectors. It took three years for the world's most powerful particle accelerator, the Large Hadron ...

Muons are getting a move on. In a step toward new types of particle physics experiments, scientists cooled and then accelerated a beam of muons. The subatomic particles, heavy cousins of electrons, ...

When the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) began operations, a small but noisy group of people tried to stop it out of fear. Their reasoning: The energies produced as protons slammed into each other at ...

Hadron colliders like the LHC tend to be circular. Their fundamental energy limit is given by the maximum strength of the bending magnets and the circumference of the tunnel. A handful of RF cavities ...

Particle accelerators, also known as particle colliders or atom smashers, have been responsible for some of the most exciting physics findings over the past century, including the discovery of the ...

“SMASH! Colossal colliders are unlocking the secrets of the universe.” The cover story of the 16 April 1990 issue of Time magazine discussed giant particle accelerators, including the Superconducting ...

Two of the largest machines ever conceived by scientists are being reported by one of the world's leading experts on particle colliders, the massive and expensive machines used to explore inner ...

Crisis, what crisis? The future of particle physics has been a major talking point of late, with decisions on next-generation high-energy colliders contrasting with skepticism as to whether such ...

Move over, Large Hadron Collider. A new atom smasher could one day slam particles into each other at even more mind-bogglingly high-energy levels than the massive underground ring near Geneva. The new ...