Visuals

Animations

ArgoNeuT: ArgoNeuT contains liquid argon in a type of detector called a "time projection chamber."

Atoms to Quarks: When we try to break the world down to the smallest building blocks of matter, we come up with the twelve elementary particles of the Standard Model.

Cherenkov Radiation: The Cherenkov Radiation sends a ring of light to the edge of the detector that is picked up by photo multiplier tubes.

Energy to Produce Mass: E=mc² tells us if you have energy you can produce any type of particle with a certain mass, as long as the mass is less than the energy you've created.

Higgs: The Higgs is believed to be a relatively heavy particle—over one hundred times heavier than a proton.

Higgs Boson and Z Boson: If the Higgs were produced with the Z boson, we would see a bottom quark pair from the Higgs decay, and a high-energy muon pair from the Z boson decay.

Higgs Mass Range: Recent research has determined that the mass of the Higgs is most likely between 115 and 160 GeV.

Higgs Mechanism and Higgs Field: The Higgs mechanism proposes that the whole universe is filled with a field called a "Higgs field."

MiniBooNE Reactions: When a muon neutrino hits an atom, a muon is released. Or, if a muon neutrino has oscillated into an electron neutrino, an electron is released.

Neutrino Oscillation: The neutrino can change back and forth, oscillating as it travels through space. This explains the apparent lack of solar neutrinos.

Neutrino Oscillation and Mass: According to quantum mechanics, in order for neutrino oscillation to occur, the neutrinos must have slightly different masses.

Neutrinos and the MiniBooNE Tank: To run the experiment, muon neutrinos created at Fermilab are sent towards the MiniBooNE tank filled with 250,000 gallons of mineral oil.

Standard Model: The Standard Model of particle physics is the best theory that physicists have to describe these elementary particles and the forces that influence them.

Standard Model with Higgs Boson: First proposed in 1964, the Higgs boson plays a unique role in the Standard Model. It helps explain how fundamental particles obtain mass.

Three Flavors of Neutrinos: There are three different "flavors" of neutrinos in the Standard Model.

Photographs

Bubble Chamber: An abandoned bubble chamber at Fermilab.

Early Accelerators: The first cyclotron, the Bevatron, and particle tracks.

Fermilab's CDF Detector: The CDF detector at Fermilab captured evidence for the existence of the top quark.

Fermilab's Tevatron: Aerial view of the Tevatron at Fermilab.

Higgs Boson: Presenting limits on the Higgs boson's mass.

Large Hadron Collider: Inside the Large Hadron Collider tunnel during construction.

Panofsky, Wolfgang: Wolfgang Panofsky refused to swear a loyalty oath that he did not belong to the communist party.

Positron Track from a Cloud Chamber: Carl Anderson, Paul Dirac, and a positron track observed in a cloud chamber.

Savannah River Plant: Aerial view of South Carolina's Savannah River nuclear reactor.

SLAC's B Factory: Detector under construction at SLAC's B factory.

Sudbury Neutrino Detector: The Sudbury Neutrino Detector led to the discovery of the neutrino's mass.

Graphics

Beta Decay Spectrum: Beta decay spectrum: The puzzling process explained by the detection of the neutrino.

Discovering Quarks at the SLAC: Overview of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center.

Fundamental Particles: Three generations of quarks and leptons.

Inverse Beta Decay: The inverse beta decay that revealed the neutrino.

Kaon-Box Diagram: Neutral kaon oscillation.

Matter and Antimatter: Matter and antimatter: An imperfect mirror.

Mesons and Baryons: The periodic table for heavier mesons and baryons.

Muon Decay: The muon's most common decay path.

Periodic Table: The periodic table of elements.

Pion Decay: Pions play an important role in explaining why atomic nuclei do not split apart.

SLAC's Evidence for the J/Psi: Computer reconstruction of a psi-prime decay in the SLAC Mark I detector.

Standard Model: Fundamental particles of the Standard Model.

Thomson's Experiments: Thomson used the cathode ray tube in three different experiments.

Underground Neutrino Experiment: Drawing of the underground Brookhaven Solar Neutrino Observatory.