Two independent lines of evidence from the world’s most powerful particle experiments are converging on the same ...

In our three-dimensional space, elementary particles neatly filter into either bosons or fermions. But in lower dimensions, that distinction gets a bit murky.

A supercharged neutrino that smashed into our planet in 2023 may have been spit out by an exploding primordial black hole ...

The photograph, titled “Underwater Hunting,” was a finalist for the 2025 Global Physics Photowalk. The competition, held ...

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.

Everything we see consists of molecules and atoms, which in turn consist of atomic nuclei and electrons. The atomic nuclei contain positively charged protons and uncharged neutrons, which consist of ...

Francesca Capel and Nadine Bourriche analyze the most energetic particle that has ever hit Earth and its possible origin in ...

Famous for his contributions to nuclear and particle physics, Antonino Zichichi is also remembered for his battle against ...

Ten years ago, physicists working at CERN, the international research institute for particle physics near Geneva, announced the discovery of the Higgs boson. This elusive particle, first predicted in ...

Research at the Department of Physics focuses on scientifically important current topics. The Department’s strong fields of research include particle physics, astrophysics and space physics, astronomy ...