Particle physicists have a hard time identifying all the
elementary particles created in their particle accelerators. But now
researchers at Chalmers University of Technology have designed a material that
makes it much easier to distinguish the particles.
To investigate the matter's smallest constituents,
physicists have particles colliding with each other at very high speeds, for
example in the particle accelerator LHC at Cern. The collisions create bursts
of common and rare particles, all invisible to the eye.