Researchers from Sun Yat-sen University (SYSU) and the Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP) have developed a novel top veto tracker system for the Taishan Antineutrino Observatory (TAO) experiment.

Earth is constantly being struck by cosmic particles. High-energy muons can easily penetrate several meters of steel or concrete. A team at the German independent research institute Helmholtz-Zentrum ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A paleontologist cleaning a skeleton during an archaeology dig; illustrative. (photo credit: SHUTTERSTOCK) Using muon detectors, ...

Archaeologists and physicists have achieved a breakthrough in historical exploration by using cosmic-ray muons to map ...

When Debaditya Biswas was a high school student in India, his math teacher, Dr. Satyabrata Das, sparked his interest in physics. "Before I joined his class, I was really not sure what I was going to ...