Deep beneath the border of France and Switzerland lies the Large Hadron Collider, the most complex machine on Earth. This ...

Colliding beams of lead create fast-moving, short-lived gold ions. Understanding the process could help to refine particle-accelerator experiments. The dream of seventeenth-century alchemists has been ...

U.S. physicists have begun work on a new particle detector that will be the first major upgrade for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s most powerful particle accelerator. A $3.5 million ...

Alchemists eat your heart out. Researchers at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider achieved the once-impossible dream of alchemists by turning lead into gold — but only for a split second. The world’s largest ...

For these physicists at CU Boulder, searching for the unknown is a matter of speed. Over the last decade, researchers on campus, including dozens of graduate and undergraduate students, have taken ...

Surprising readings from December just won't go away -- and unlike the LHC's last big particle, this one would upset physics rather than confirming it. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share ...

This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore. Deep in the belly of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), about 400 million particle collisions are ...

The LHC, operating at unprecedented luminosities, has revealed a system of five "glue-like" particles that could help us to fill out a "periodic table" of subatomic particles. Share on Facebook (opens ...

ALICE experiment at CERN's Large Hadron Collider, where KU nuclear physicists helped detect gold, briefly, during ultra-peripheral collisions. LAWRENCE — Nuclear physicists working at the Large Hadron ...

One of the ultimate goals of medieval alchemy has been realized, but only for a fraction of a second. Scientists with the European Organization for Nuclear Research, better known as CERN, were able to ...