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The $10 billion, 17-mile-long Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has lain dormant for two years while engineers revamped it to hurl particles at even greater speeds. Physicists think the near-light-speed ...

Once the most popular framework for physics beyond the Standard Model, supersymmetry is facing a reckoning—but many researchers are not giving up on it yet. The Standard Model of particle physics is ...

A small band of particle-seeking scientists at Yale and Harvard has established a new benchmark for the electron’s almost perfect roundness, raising doubts about certain theories that predict what ...

Supersymmetry is simply beautiful. It is the largest possible space-time symmetry of nature and it relates space and time with a fundamental quantum property of elementary particles, the spin.

Two of the general purpose detectors at the LHC, ATLAS and CMS, tend to keep a high profile, as they’re designed to be able to spot anything that comes out of the collisions—the Higgs, dark matter, or ...

Supersymmetry in a three-dimensional topological superconductor: Ising magnetic fluctuations (denoted by red arrows) at the boundary couple to the fermions (blue cone). UC Santa Barbara physicist ...

Awarding the Nobel Prize for physics to the scientists who kicked off a quest to find a theoretical subatomic particle brings the nearly 50-year story full circle — like the circular tunnel of the $10 ...

What would it feel like to be stuck inside a particle accelerator? That’s the scenario posed by Japanese sound artist Ryoji Ikeda in his hyper-sensory new solo exhibition supersymmetry. The ...

The origin of dark matter remains a mystery. It is thought to dominate the mass of the universe and the evidence is very hard to refute. Probably the best candidate for an explanation is an idea known ...