{"id":212346,"date":"2025-04-24T17:05:51","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T22:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/quantum-sensors-tested-for-next-generation-particle-physics-experiments"},"modified":"2025-04-24T17:05:51","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T22:05:51","slug":"quantum-sensors-tested-for-next-generation-particle-physics-experiments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/quantum-sensors-tested-for-next-generation-particle-physics-experiments","title":{"rendered":"Quantum sensors tested for next-generation particle physics experiments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/quantum-sensors-tested-for-next-generation-particle-physics-experiments.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To learn more about the nature of matter, energy, space, and time, physicists smash high-energy particles together in large accelerator machines, creating sprays of millions of particles per second of a variety of masses and speeds. The collisions may also produce entirely new particles not predicted by the standard model, the prevailing theory of fundamental particles and forces in our universe. Plans are underway to create more powerful particle accelerators, whose collisions will unleash even larger subatomic storms. How will researchers sift through the chaos?<\/p>\n<p>The answer may lie in <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/quantum+sensors\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">quantum sensors<\/a>. Researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy\u2019s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), Caltech, NASA\u2019s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (which is managed by Caltech), and other collaborating institutions have developed a novel high-energy particle detection instrumentation approach that leverages the power of quantum sensors\u2014devices capable of precisely detecting single particles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the next 20 to 30 years, we will see a <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/paradigm+shift\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">paradigm shift<\/a> in particle colliders as they become more powerful in energy and intensity,\u201d says Maria Spiropulu, the Shang-Yi Ch\u2019en Professor of Physics at Caltech.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To learn more about the nature of matter, energy, space, and time, physicists smash high-energy particles together in large accelerator machines, creating sprays of millions of particles per second of a variety of masses and speeds. The collisions may also produce entirely new particles not predicted by the standard model, the prevailing theory of fundamental [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}