PSI researcher Malte Hildebrandt as he works on the MuCap detector. (Courtesy: Paul Scherrer Institute/Markus Fischer) The rate at which protons capture muons has been accurately measured for the ...

NEWPORT NEWS, VA – Much ado was made about the Higgs boson when this elusive particle was discovered in 2012. Though it was touted as giving ordinary matter mass, interactions with the Higgs field ...

Precision frontier: the ATLAS experiment on the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. (Courtesy: CERN) In a thorough review of proton collision data from CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC), physicists ...

The Nature Index 2025 Research Leaders — previously known as Annual Tables — reveal the leading institutions and countries/territories in the natural and health sciences, according to their output in ...

Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) is universally accepted today as the theory of strong interactions. Nevertheless, many conceptual questions, like those concerning the properties of the quark gluon plasma ...