Nature Research Intelligence Topics Topic summaries Physical Sciences Particle and High Energy Physics Particle Physics Particle physics seeks to understand the fundamental constituents of matter and ...
Columnist Natalie Wolchover checks in with particle physicists more than a decade after the field entered a profound crisis.
Over time, particle physics and astrophysics and computing have built upon one another’s successes. That coevolution continues today. In the mid-twentieth century, particle physicists were peering ...
Particle physics is a branch of physics that studies the nature of particles that are the constituents of what is usually referred to as matter and radiation. In current understanding, particles are ...
Our best models can't explain why the mass-giving Higgs boson is so small. Resurrecting a 40-year-old idea could put this riddle and two others to rest CERN's recently restarted Large Hadron Collider ...