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Latest news on particle physics, covering CERN, the LHC, Fermilab, the Higgs boson, neutrinos, antimatter, quarks, leptons, muons, bosons, fermions, baryons, mesons, gluons, hadrons, antiparticles, dark matter, particle accelerators, gravitational waves, string theory and quantum field theory.

Particle physics explores the fundamental building blocks of matter and the forces that govern them, from quarks and leptons to bosons, muons, tau particles and antimatter. Major research centres like CERN in Switzerland, Fermilab in the United States and SLAC, formerly the Stanford Linear Accelerator, in California host particle accelerators and detectors that recreate conditions moments after the Big Bang. They help scientists probe elementary particles, subatomic particles and the strong nuclear force and weak nuclear force.

Current research focuses on dark matter, searching for new particles beyond the Standard Model, and testing quantum mechanics, quantum field theory and quantum chromodynamics. The Large Hadron Collider uses superconducting magnets to collide protons at the highest energies reached in a laboratory, and physicists analyse billions of collisions for supersymmetry, extra dimensions and exotic matter. Neutrino experiments such as DUNE, with a beam from Fermilab to South Dakota, study how neutrinos change flavour and gain mass, while the puzzle of why the universe holds more matter than antimatter drives experiments on antiparticles.

The field attracts brilliant minds from around the world, with international collaborations of thousands of researchers sharing data and discoveries. Experiments such as ATLAS, CMS, ALICE and LHCb, particle detectors of enormous size, and observatories such as LIGO, which detects gravitational waves, show how far teamwork reaches. Related work spans quasiparticles in solids, ultracold atom research, particle theory and particle experiments, plus laser-wakefield and micro-accelerator ideas for smaller machines.

From Ernest Rutherford's early atomic model to the 2012 Higgs boson discovery, particle physics has transformed our understanding of matter and energy. Particle colliders such as the Tevatron and the LHC, and ideas from string theory to quantum mechanics, have driven a century of Nobel Prize-winning work, and the field has inspired medical imaging, computing and materials science.

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