A summer intern at Jefferson Laboratory is excited about the ILC – and he’s got the tattoo to prove it.
From a wave function equation to a CERN bubble chamber image, the tattoos physics enthusiasts sport are wide-ranging. But is the ILC represented? Thanks to Gabriel Palacios, a physics engineering student who interned at Jefferson Lab (US) this summer, it is. Palacios, who currently studies at Mexico City’s Metropolitan Autonomous University, had the ILC accelerator […]
The US laboratory accelerator is doubling its electron beam energy to address forces at work in protons and neutrons
Why don’t quarks fly solo? Scientists have long observed that these particles, like Noah’s animals or instances of bad luck, always come in twos or threes. Yet nothing in the Standard Model of physics says quarks have to keep each other company. Scientists at Jefferson Laboratory in Newport News, US, will soon be uniquely positioned […]
While it’s said that opposites attract, particle physicists are taking no chances. In hopes of learning what the universe is made of, they’re preparing to build a machine that will accelerate and smash together electrons and their opposites, positrons, 14,000 times every second. Like Jefferson Lab’s Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility (CEBAF), the proposed new […]