Beams-eye view of the CMS detector at the CERN LHC.

Beams-eye view of the CMS detector at the CERN LHC.

Graphene sheet after electron beam lithography.

The interior of the Super-Kamiokande water tank lined with 11,100 photomultiplier tubes.

Event display from the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider.

2012 Physics Department Picnic and Alumni Reunion

Three alpha particles traveling from left to right in a dark matter tracking detector. The uppermost one undergoes Rutherford scattering.

Histogram showing the evolution of a valence-bond solid state of a quantum magnet.

Blast wave and splash when a stationary gas is hit by a moving particle from the left.