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A team of young scientists paused their new physics searches to develop an innovative machine-learning tool, which is now helping them narrow in on a rare and messy decay of the Higgs boson.
In a preview of observations that will be made routinely by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, astronomers found evidence indicating that a galaxy cluster is merging, a first for a nearby (astronomically speaking) cluster.
BOOST 2025 is the 17th Annual Workshop on Boosted Object Phenomenology, Reconstruction, Measurements, and Searches at Colliders, to be held on Monday, July 28 - Friday, August 1 in Barus and Holley, Room 168.
In the study published in Nature Physics, researchers from Northeastern University and Brown University describe how they used a method called thermal quenching to toggle the properties of a quantum material known as 1T-TaS₂, coaxing it into behaving like both an insulator and a conductor, depending on the temperature.
The Physics Department is pleased to announce that PhD student Andrew Reynoso received a Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) award from the NSF.
Speaking before a U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee, Brown University chemist and physicist Brenda Rubenstein called America’s universities “incubators that grow the future quantum workforce.”
Your investment fuels research in diverse fields of physics that will shape our future understanding of matter and ultimately help humanity solve some of the pressing problems of our time. With your help, the astonishing research done by our exceptional faculty and students will do nothing less than transform our daily lives. By donating to the Physics Special Fund, your donation will go where you want it to go: directly supporting physics research, faculty and students. Thank you!