Can a competition with cash rewards improve techniques for tracking the Large Hadron Collider’s messy collisions? Physicists at the world’s leading atom smasher are calling for help. In the next decade, they plan to produce up to 20 times more particle collisions in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) than they do now, but current detector systems aren’t fit for the coming deluge...

Can a competition with cash rewards improve techniques for tracking the Large Hadron Collider’s messy collisions? Physicists at the world’s leading atom smasher are calling for help. In the next decade, they plan to produce up to 20 times more particle collisions in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) than they do now, but current detector systems aren’t fit for the coming deluge...