Two thousand feet under the shores of Lake Erie, in a six-story salt cavern, one of the most sophisticated light detectors ever constructed is waiting. Every second, several particles speed through ...

A photomultiplier is a light detection device that consists of a specialized vacuum tube, which is constructed along the lines of Figure 1. Responding to as little as a single photon, these devices ...

ALICE collaboration identifies three-phase process that allows particles to form despite energetically unfavourable ...

An international team of nuclear physicists has created zinc-54 for the first time. Moreover, they have confirmed that it can undergo two-proton decay, a rare process that has only been seen in one ...