Scientific Highlights

First particle tracks seen in prototype for international neutrino experiment

September 18, 2018

The largest liquid-argon neutrino detector in the world has just recorded its first particle tracks, signaling the start of a new chapter in the story of the international Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE).

ATLAS observes elusive Higgs boson decay to a pair of bottom quarks

August 28, 2018

Six years after its discovery, the Higgs boson has at last been observed decaying to fundamental particles known as bottom quarks.

MAGIC telescopes trace origin of a rare cosmic neutrino

July 12, 2018

For the first time, astrophysicists have localized the source of a high energy cosmic neutrino originating outside the Milky Way. It is highly likely that the neutrino comes from a blazar in the Orion constellation.

ATLAS observes direct interaction of Higgs boson with top quark

June 4, 2018

New results from the ATLAS experiment at the LHC reveal how strongly the Higgs boson interacts with the heaviest known elementary particle, the top quark.

Dark Energy Survey publicly releases first three years of data

January 10, 2018

This first major release of data from the Survey includes information on about 400 million astronomical objects, including distant galaxies billions of light years away as well as stars in our own galaxy.

Scientists spot explosive counterpart of LIGO/Virgo’s latest gravitational waves

October 16, 2017

Scientists using the Dark Energy Camera have captured images of the aftermath of a neutron star collision, the source of LIGO/Virgo’s most recent gravitational wave detection

CTA Releases its Updated Science Case

September 27, 2017

The latest iteration of the Cherenkov Telescope Array's (CTA's) science case, Science with the Cherenkov Telescope Array, was made available today

Prime candidate to explain cosmic ray sea runs short of energy

September 19, 2017

Scientists have been advocating for decades that cosmic rays are accelerated in the remnants of supernova explosions. However the MAGIC telescopes have now observed that one of the best candidates, the supernova remnant Cassiopeia A, falls very short of the required energy.

Dark Energy Survey reveals most accurate measurement of dark matter structure in the universe

August 12, 2017

New result rivals precision of cosmic microwave background measurements, supports view that dark matter and dark energy make up most of the cosmos