Symmetry Magazine Archivi

What is luminosity?

Later this decade, the Large Hadron Collider will be upgraded to the High-Luminosity LHC.
What does “luminosity” mean in particle physics?

By Sarah Charley
(Symmetry Magazine)

How big can a fundamental particle be?

Extremely massive fundamental particles could exist, but they would seriously mess with our understanding of quantum mechanics.

By Sarah Charley (Symmetry Magazine)

Nearly 75 years after the puzzling first detection of the kaon, scientists are still looking to the particle for hints of physics beyond their current understanding.

By Nathan Collins
(Symmetry Magazine)

CERN experiments show evidence for a rare Higgs Boson decay.

On August 2020, during the ICHEP 2020 Conference, the CMS experiment at Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN of Geneva, announced the evidence of Higgs Boson decay in muon pairs.

The cold eyes of DUNE

DUNE experiment and challenges for electronics at cryogenic temperatures.
An article by Jerald Pinson - from Fermilab News

What’s left to learn about antimatter?

Experiments at CERN investigate antiparticles.
By Sarah Charley (Symmetry)

Fine-tuning versus naturalness

When observed parameters seem like they must be finely tuned to fit a theory, some physicists accept it as coincidence. Others want to keep digging.
By Madeleine O’Keefe (Symmetry)

The particle physics of you

Not only are we made of fundamental particles, we also produce them and are constantly bombarded by them throughout the day. By Ali Sundermier (Symmetry)