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, ...

Muons galore: why is Pierre Auger seeing more muons than expected? (Courtesy: Pierre Auger Observatory) Significantly more muons appear to be created in cosmic-ray showers than are predicted by models ...

What lies within: exploring Khufu's Pyramid using virtual reality A large void hidden deep within Khufu’s Pyramid at Giza in Egypt has been discovered by a team of physicists. The first-ever image of ...

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A little over a year ago we’d written about a sub $100 muon detector that MIT doctoral candidate [Spencer Axani] and a few others had put together. At the time there was little more than a paper on ...

The next generation of atom smasher could be a 100-kilometer-round ring, costing over $10 billion, with no promise of finding something as glamorous as last decade’s Higgs boson. But does the future ...

Photography student Tom Liggett sent film to 120,000 ft in a hot-air balloon, capturing images of cosmic radiation ...

When Fermilab physicist Steve Geer agreed to perform a calculation as part of a muon collider task force 10 years ago, he imagined he would show that the collider s technical challenges were too ...

At its most glamorous, the life of an experimental high-energy physicist consists of smashing obscure subatomic particles with futuristic-sounding names into each other to uncover truths about the ...

The 50-foot-wide racetrack used to study muons traveled by barge around Florida and up the Mississippi, and then by truck across Illinois. Reidar Hahn, Fermilab About 50 years ago, physicists came up ...

You might think that particle physicists would be sad when an experiment comes up with different results than their theory would predict, but nothing brightens up a field like unexplained phenomena.

On Wednesday, April 7, the Muon g-2 Experiment at Fermilab released its eagerly awaited first result. In the experiment, muons (like electrons but heavier) race around the 150-foot circumference ...