Each week in his Compton Lectures, Tuggle will focus on a novel, current use of a particle physics technology with an eye toward the principles behind its operation and how it has advanced physics, as ...

This spring’s free lectures series will be held 11 a.m. Saturday mornings at the Kersten Physics Teaching Center through June 2 (except for Memorial Day weekend). The series is named for pioneering ...

The University of California, Santa Cruz, will host an international gathering of particle physicists this week to discuss the development of a next-generation international particle accelerator ...

Lecture – The Jazz of Physics The Kaczmarczik Lecture is a significant event at Drexel University. For nearly 30 years, guest lecturers have included numerous Nobel Laureates and renowned scientists ...

Scientists approved a blueprint for the next two decades of particle physics in the U.S. on Friday. It aims to restore American primacy in high energy particle physics.

QUARKS These particles make up protons, neutrons and a veritable zoo of lesser-known particles. They have never been observed in isolation. Electric charge: +2/3 Mass: 2 MeV Constituent of ...

Updated 12:01 p.m. ET STOCKHOLM Francois Englert of Belgium and Peter Higgs of Britain won the 2013 Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for their theory on how the most basic building blocks of the ...

The tried and tested basic law of modern particle physics—what scientists call the Standard Model —enshrines the muon as one of our universe’s fundamental building blocks.

A new measurement of a fundamental particle called the W boson appears to defy the standard model of particle physics, our current understanding of how the basic building blocks of the universe ...