particle physics

Results announced by the LHCb experiment at CERN have revealed further hints for phenomena that cannot be explained by our current theory of...

UK particle physicists have today announced ‘intriguing’ results that potentially cannot be explained by the current laws of nature.

Holly Pacey is a PhD candidate in the High Energy Physics Group based at the Cavendish Laboratory, and works on the ATLAS experiment. She spent the...

Scientists from the University of Cambridge are presenting their research into the nature of antimatter at this year’s Royal Society Summer...

Major international collaboration has seen its first neutrinos – so-called ‘ghost particles’ – in the experiment’s newly built detector.

After two years of intense maintenance and consolidation, and several months of preparation for restart, the Large Hadron Collider, the most powerful...

Scientists have successfully demonstrated a new way to control the “spin” of an electron – the natural intrinsic angular momentum of electrons which...

In August 1984 two physicists arrived at a formula that transformed our understanding of string theory, an achievement now recognised by a major...