On April 3 last year, the left-hand side of the Fermilab Today website had a graphical weather forecast depicting storm clouds. It was a fitting metaphor for the mood of the US lab, which had recently ...
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) successfully passed its first test when it fired two beams of protons Wednesday morning. The beams were fired at different times around the collider’s 17-mile ...
Physicists send an ultra-clean, miniature ping-pong ball through part of the Large Hadron Collider beam pipe to test for hidden defects. Sometimes the best solutions in high-energy physics research ...