The upshot is that, with a few simple equations, Wheeler could transform an electron moving forward in time to one traveling backwards, and the only observable change would be the particle’s ...

Discover the fascinating world of particle physics — the most fundamental building blocks of the universe and the forces that ...

What's less clear from a lot of these stories, though, is what this has to do with particle physics. For that matter, what does it even mean to talk about the electron having a shape? As ...

Scientists may have discovered the most powerful particle colliders in the universe — and they're strewn throughout our ...

Understanding and refining the gyromagnetic factor, or “g factor,” is more than a theoretical pursuit-it directly impacts how ...

The event triggered 23 of the surface detectors, with a calculated energy of about 244 exa-electron volts. The “Oh My God particle” detected more than 30 years ago was 320 exa-electron volts.

Any asymmetry in the electron’s shape, namely the distribution of the particle’s electric charge, would point to a related asymmetry in the laws of nature, one that could explain this feature ...

They fashioned a successful prototype. The device can deliver only about 1 electron per second, a tiny trickle by particle accelerator standards. (The average wire inside the average device in ...

That middle word, muon, refers to an elusive particle similar to the electron but much more massive, which requires its array of subdetectors wrapped around the solenoid. The LHC's other general ...

including using the teensy particle accelerators inside human patients. The new machine, known as a nanophotonic electron accelerator (NEA), consists of a small microchip that houses an even ...