The interaction region of the upgraded Beijing Electron Positron Collider, BEPCII, an intense source of charm particles.
Tools of particle physics
The tools of particle physics are beacons that draw scientists together in a common quest to discover the fundamental nature of matter and energy, space and time.
Accelerators of the future will incorporate superconducting radiofrequency technology for particle beams of both high energy and high intensity. A nine-cell superconducting rf cavity under development at DESY Laboratory in Germany.
High intensity
Physicists use intense accelerated beams, packed with the highest possible number of particles, to explore neutrino interactions and search for nature’s rarest processes. Neutrino mysteries lie at the heart of 21st-century particle physics. Ultra-rare processes open doorways to realms of energy far beyond those that we can reach directly in colliders, putting us further along the path to where physicists theorize that all of nature’s forces become one.
Related Images (Click to enlarge)
Italy’s Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare will construct the SuperB Factory at the University of Rome “Tor Vergata” to cast light on central questions of contemporary physics, including the disappearance of antimatter.
J-PARC’s main ring, a synchrotron accelerator in Japan with a maximum energy of 50 GeV.
To discover the fundamental properties of neutrinos, the proposed Long Baseline Neutrino Experiment would send a beam of neutrinos from Fermilab to a detector some 800 miles away.
A bird’s eye view of KEK, a particle physics laboratory in Japan. KEK plans to upgrade its existing KEKB accelerator to SuperKEKB, aiming for a 40-fold increase in particle collisions.
The near detector for the NOνA experiment. Beginning in 2013, NOνA will explore the strange properties of neutrinos using a particle beam that travels from Fermilab to a detector 500 miles away.
