If you happened to find yourself on Fermilab’s homepage today, you would find there a handy link to today’s “University Profile,” which highlights Northeastern. One of 118 universities that rely on Fermilab to perform research, Northeastern’s research team focuses on the detection of two types of sub-atomic particle: the muon and the photon. Fermilab was ...
The other day I interviewed Emanuela Barberis of the physics department about her work with two other physics professors, Darien Wood and George Alverson, at CERN (the European Center for Particle Physics). We were chatting about muons and leptons and quarks, stuff I’m (definitely not) totally familiar with. I was basically getting my own personal ...