A Through-The-Lens Look at the World’s Particle Physics Labs
At the CryOgenic Laboratory for Detectors (COLD) at INFN, Raffaella Donghia operates a cryostat, which cools materials to a few thousandths of a degree above absolute zero.
在 INFN 的低温探测器实验室 (COLD)，Raffaella Donghia 操作一台低温恒温器，可将材料冷却至绝对零以上千分之几度。
At these temperatures, scientists can hunt for dark matter, the mysterious substance that glues galaxies together.
在这样的温度下，科学家们可以寻找暗物质，一种将星系粘合在一起的神秘物质。
The photographer Marco Donghia is planning to get a tattoo of the scene that he captured in this winning contest photo.
摄影师 Marco Donghia 正计划对他在这张获奖照片中拍摄的场景进行纹身。
Last summer, a wedding photographer walked begrudgingly into a physics laboratory outside Rome.
去年夏天，一位婚礼摄影师不情愿地走进罗马郊外的一个物理实验室。
Feeling uninspired by the intricate machinery around him, he decided to turn off the lights.
他对周围复杂的机械感到厌倦，决定关掉灯。
“I wanted to create a world that was a bit more intimate,” said the photographer, Marco Donghia.
“我想创造一个更亲密的世界，”摄影师 Marco Donghia 说。
He had been brought into the lab to participate in a photography contest by his sister Raffaella Donghia, a researcher at the National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN) in Frascati, Italy.
他被他的妹妹 Raffaella Donghia 带进实验室参加摄影比赛，Raffaella Donghia 是意大利弗拉斯卡蒂国家核物理研究所 (INFN) 的研究员。
Armed with artificial lights, Marco sat his sister at a desk across from a golden cryostat, which her colleagues use to freeze detectors to temperatures colder than the vacuum of space to hunt for subatomic particles zipping by.
马可拿着人造灯，让他的妹妹坐在金色低温恒温器对面的桌子旁，她的同事用它来将探测器冷冻到比太空真空还要冷的温度，以寻找快速掠过的亚原子粒子。
“I tried to capture the relationship that exists between humans and technology,” he said.
“我试图捕捉人类与技术之间存在的关系，”他说。
“I tell love stories, so for me it’s natural.”
“我讲爱情故事，所以对我来说这是很自然的。”
A panel of judges in the 2025 Global Physics Photowalk contest were impressed by the moment that Donghia captured.
2025 年全球物理摄影行走比赛的评委团对 Donghia 捕捉到的瞬间印象深刻。
His photo (above) won first place in the competition organized by a collaboration of 16 particle physics laboratories around the world, from the United States to France to Japan.
他的照片（上图）在由美国、法国、日本等世界各地 16 个粒子物理实验室合作组织的竞赛中获得第一名。
Dozens of amateur and professional photographers were invited to find beauty in the invisible world of force fields and subatomic particles, which blip into existence for fractions of a second and hold secrets about the origin and fate of the universe.
数十名业余和专业摄影师受邀在力场和亚原子粒子的无形世界中寻找美丽，它们在转瞬即逝的瞬间就存在了，并蕴藏着有关宇宙起源和命运的秘密。
Each participating lab entered its top three images in the global competition, with the winning entries selected by judges and in a public vote.
每个参赛实验室都在全球竞赛中进入了前三名图像，获奖作品由评委和公众投票选出。
“I was amazed by how many excellent photos were submitted,” said Dmitri Denisov , an experimental particle physicist at Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island, N.Y.
“我对提交的这么多优秀照片感到惊讶，”纽约长岛布鲁克海文国家实验室的实验粒子物理学家德米特里·杰尼索夫 (Dmitri Denisov) 说。
As the only scientist among the judges, Denisov worried that his priorities would be at odds with those of the photographers and artists on the panel, but he was surprised to find how easily they converged.
作为评委中唯一的科学家，杰尼索夫担心他的优先事项会与评审团中摄影师和艺术家的优先事项不一致，但他惊讶地发现他们如此容易地融合在一起。
The process of considering both visual aesthetics and scientific accuracy helped him appreciate the connection between science and art.
考虑视觉美学和科学准确性的过程帮助他认识到科学与艺术之间的联系。
“Photography is one of many ways of communicating to the public about excitement — why I’m a scientist, and why we are doing what we’re doing,” he said.
“摄影是向公众表达兴奋的多种方式之一——为什么我是一名科学家，以及为什么我们正在做我们正在做的事情，”他说。
The full list of shortlisted entries can be found here .
入围作品的完整列表可在此处找到。
We’ve chosen a few favorites, whose visual qualities seem in some essential way to reflect the extraordinary science behind them.
我们选择了一些最喜欢的，它们的视觉品质似乎在某种程度上反映了它们背后非凡的科学。
Anchored off the coast of France under 2,500 meters of water, the Cubic Kilometer Neutrino Telescope (KM3NeT) will use thousands of optical sensor modules to capture flashes of light emanating from the interactions with neutrinos, ghostly particles that could help explain why all the matter in the universe exists.
立方公里中微子望远镜 (KM3NeT) 锚定在法国海岸 2500 米深的水下，将使用数千个光学传感器模块来捕捉中微子相互作用中发出的闪光，中微子是幽灵般的粒子，可以帮助解释宇宙中所有物质存在的原因。
The judges awarded third place to this image of a Cherenkov light sensor, which uses a filter shaped like a spiderweb to better focus the signals it captures.
评委们将切伦科夫光传感器的图像授予第三名，该图像使用蜘蛛网形状的滤光器来更好地聚焦其捕获的信号。
“It’s scientists using in their equipment ideas that nature developed over billions of years,” said contest judge Dmitri Denisov.
竞赛评委德米特里·杰尼索夫 (Dmitri Denisov) 表示：“科学家们在他们的设备中运用了大自然数十亿年发展出来的创意。”
In CERN’s high-temperature superconducting laboratory near Geneva, a wiring machine combines dozens of strands of niobium–tin to create the Rutherford cables needed to generate intense magnetic fields in high-energy particle accelerators.
在日内瓦附近的欧洲核子研究组织高温超导实验室中，一台接线机将数十股铌锡结合在一起，制造出在高能粒子加速器中产生强磁场所需的卢瑟福电缆。
This silicon strip detector was used in the NA50 experiment, a research effort at CERN’s Super Proton Synchrotron that provided evidence for the existence of a new state of matter, the quark-gluon plasma.
这种硅条探测器用于 NA50 实验，这是欧洲核子研究中心超级质子同步加速器的一项研究工作，为夸克-胶子等离子体这一新物质态的存在提供了证据。
The Advanced Gamma Tracking Array (AGATA) photon detector and the PRISMA magnetic spectrometer at the INFN National Laboratories in Legnaro, Italy, explore the structure of exotic nuclei produced by the collision of heavy ions.
意大利莱尼亚罗 INFN 国家实验室的先进伽马跟踪阵列 (AGATA) 光子探测器和 PRISMA 磁谱仪探索重离子碰撞产生的奇异核的结构。
A recently excavated expansion drift, or tunnel, at the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF) in South Dakota.
南达科他州桑福德地下研究设施 (SURF) 最近挖掘的扩张巷道或隧道。
This is the first phase of SURF’s plan to create more underground space for next-generation neutrino, rare process and dark matter experiments.
这是 SURF 计划的第一阶段，旨在为下一代中微子、稀有过程和暗物质实验创造更多的地下空间。
In the public vote on the contest entries, first place went to this photo taken at the Large Heavy Ion National Accelerator research center in Caen, France.
在对参赛作品的公众投票中，这张在法国卡昂大型重离子国家加速器研究中心拍摄的照片获得第一名。
The service corridor pictured, which runs the length of the SPIRAL2 superconductor linear accelerator, provides access to various systems that feed its components, including connections for cooling circuits, vacuum pumps, and systems status monitors.
图中的服务走廊沿着 SPIRAL2 超导直线加速器的长度延伸，提供对其组件供电的各种系统的访问，包括冷却回路、真空泵和系统状态监视器的连接。
The photographer Yannig Van De Wouwer was searching for an interesting pattern at the Large Heavy Ion National Accelerator in Caen, France.
摄影师 Yannig Van De Wouwer 正在法国卡昂的大型重离子国家加速器中寻找有趣的图案。
His artistic close-up of the casing of a vacuum pipe that helps maintain the SPIRAL2 linear accelerator facility was awarded second place in the public vote.
他对有助于维护 SPIRAL2 直线加速器设施的真空管外壳的艺术特写在公众投票中获得了第二名。
The curving underground passage at the SuperKEKB particle accelerator in Tsukuba, Japan.
日本筑波 SuperKEKB 粒子加速器的弯曲地下通道。
The flagship electron-positron collider at the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK) achieved the world’s highest instantaneous luminosity for a colliding-beam accelerator in 2020.
高能加速器研究组织 (KEK) 的旗舰正负电子对撞机在 2020 年实现了世界对撞束加速器的最高瞬时亮度。
A switch router enables data exchanges among the thousands of servers that make up the storage and processing platforms at the IN2P3 Computing Center at the French National Center for Scientific Research in Lyon, France.
位于法国里昂的法国国家科学研究中心 IN2P3 计算中心的存储和处理平台由交换路由器实现了数千台服务器之间的数据交换。
The router handles the transfer of several hundred terabytes of data every day, the majority of which flows from experiments at the Large Hadron Collider.
该路由器每天处理数百 TB 的数据传输，其中大部分来自大型强子对撞机的实验。
A cavity excavated to a depth of 33.5 meters for near neutrino detectors at the Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex in the Tokai region.
在东海地区的日本质子加速器研究中心，为近中微子探测器挖掘了 33.5 米深的空腔。
Within the vast cavity is an off-axis detector, part of the near detector complex designed to measure the intensity, profile, and direction of the neutrino beam produced for the T2K (Tokai to Kamioka) experiment.
巨大的空腔内有一个离轴探测器，它是近探测器复合体的一部分，旨在测量 T2K（东海到神冈）实验产生的中微子束的强度、轮廓和方向。
Industrial gas cylinders at DarkSide-20k, a dark matter detection experiment under construction at the INFN Gran Sasso National Laboratory in Italy.
DarkSide-20k 的工业气瓶是意大利 INFN 格兰萨索国家实验室正在建设的暗物质探测实验。
At the heart of the experiment is the Time Projection Chamber, which will use 50 tonnes of liquid argon to detect high-mass Weakly Interacting Massive Particles, or WIMPs.
该实验的核心是时间投影室，它将使用 50 吨液氩来探测高质量弱相互作用大质量粒子 (WIMP)。
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