Quantum sensors tested for next-generation particle physics experiments

Quantum sensors tested for next-generation particle physics experiments

To learn more about the nature of matter, energy, space, and time, physicists smash high-energy particles together in large accelerator machines, creating sprays of millions of particles per second of a variety of masses and speeds. The collisions may also produce entirely new particles not predicted by the standard model, the prevailing theory of fundamental particles and forces in our universe. Plans are underway to create more powerful partic…

Particles Unknown - University of the Philippines

The Higgs, Dark Matter, and how the 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics puts UP at the forefront of describing reality itself   Dr. Marvin Flores, team leader of ATLAS in the Philippines, trained in particle physics at the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa. Photo courtesy of Dr. Marvin Flores. In 2012, a team at the European Organization for Nuclear Research or CERN finally found the Higgs boson, one of the universe’s elementa…

To learn more about the nature of matter, energy, space and time, physicists break high-energy particles in large accelerator machines, creating sprays of millions of particles per second of a variety of masses and speeds. Collisions can also produce entirely new particles [...]