Elusive particles found

IN THE PAST YEAR, PRINCETON PHYSICISTS have detected two particles that were predicted decades ago to exist but had not been found until now. Both particles were detected using a scanning-tunneling microscope to image the Continue Reading →

Higgs boson, confirmed

Several Princeton faculty members and students were directly involved in the search for the once-elusive particle known as the Higgs boson. Last March, physicists at the world’s largest particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider on Continue Reading →