One of the things that makes the main particle accelerator at the U.S. Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility unique is that it was the first linear accelerator to ...

Researchers from Trinity College Dublin’s School of Engineering have built a powerful new machine that lets us watch precisely what happens when tiny particles — far smaller than a grain of sand — hit ...

GENEVA, Sept 10 (Reuters) - Scientists at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) started up a huge particle-smashing machine on Wednesday, aiming to re-enact the conditions of the "Big ...

For years, physicists have been baffled by the discovery of mysterious “ghost particles”. The scientific name for them is “neutrinos”, which are neutral sub-atomic particles with no electric charge.