Particle accelerators are powerful devices that use electromagnetic fields to propel charged particles like electrons or protons at speeds close to the speed of light, then smash them head-on. What ...

Ever since the discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012, physicists have wanted to build new particle colliders to better understand the properties of that elusive particle and probe elementary particle ...

The Cool Copper Collider is a new proposal for a Higgs-producing linear collider that would be more compact than other collider designs. A prototype version of the Cool Copper Collider. The photo ...

The machine will stretch for 50 kilometres, a giant string of supercooled, superconducting cavities that will pump energy into two colliding beams of matter and antimatter. Physicists have already ...

Last month, a group of researchers in the United States presented a rousing vision for the future of high-energy particle physics. The recommendations from the Particle Physics Project Prioritization ...

Particle physicists love speed. They hope that, some years from now, they’ll have a brand-new machine capable of colliding particles stupefyingly fast—99.999999999 percent of the speed of light.