Science catalogue
Particle physics asks what matter is made of and which forces hold it together. These explainers cover the Standard Model and the Higgs boson, how charged particles lose energy in matter, the silicon sensors and photodetectors that record them, neutrino experiments such as JUNO, and the colliders at CERN that are now planning their successor.
Ordered routes through the archive. Read each one from top to bottom; it fills itself as new articles are tagged.
The ideas everything else rests on.
5 articles, 37 min in all
Results that moved the field from argument to measurement.
4 articles, 21 min in all
Where current theory runs out.
3 articles, 24 min in all
Newest in Particle Physics
Why is the LHC colder than outer space? At 1.9 kelvin helium turns superfluid, and that quantum threshold keeps the LHC's magnets from quenching.
7 min read
Read the articlePLATON particle detector ditches millions of scintillator fibers for one block, a plenoptic camera, and a Transformer AI headed for PET scanners first.
5 min read
SiPM vs PMT: silicon wins on efficiency, voltage and magnetic immunity, but tubes still win on collecting area per euro.
6 min read
China's new JUNO neutrino detector has achieved 1.6 times better precision than all previous experiments combined, using just 59 days of data, bringing the…
5 min read
Every topic tagged in this section. Each concept opens its own reading list.
20 articles, newest first
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