Gallery: The Art of Physics: Winning Photos of Giant Particle Colliders
01joseph-paul-boccio
*The [KLOE detector](http://english.ihep.cas.cn/ic/ip/200909/t20090901_35100.html) at Frascati National Laboratory in Italy looks for a special asymmetry in the behavior of strange particles called kaons. The experiment could help explain why the universe is made of matter and not antimatter. This was the Jury's Choice first place image.* *Credit: Joseph Paul Boccio*
02andy-white
*Looking like something from the set of Transformers, the Canadian [TIGRESS detector](http://www.physics.uoguelph.ca/Nucweb/tigress.html) photographs the gamma rays coming from exotic isotopes of different elements as they interact and decay.This was the Jury's Choice second place image.* *Credit: Andy White*
03helen-trist
*A room full of data storage at the U.K. [Rutherford Appleton Laboratory](http://www.stfc.ac.uk/About+STFC/51.aspx). This was the Jury's Choice third place image.* *Credit: Helen Trist*
04nino-bruno
*A starkly lit tunnel connecting underground halls at the [Gran Sasso National Laboratory](http://www.lngs.infn.it/) in Italy. This was the People's Choice first place image.* *Credit: Nino Bruno*
05enrique-diaz
*The Brookhaven National Lab's [STAR detector](http://www.bnl.gov/rhic/star.asp), which tracks thousands of particles created at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider. This was the People's Choice second place image.* *Credit: Enrique Diaz*
06steve-zimic
*Though often overshadowed by the much larger particle accelerators at CERN and Fermilab, the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven National Lab in New York is one of the finest machines in nuclear physics. Unfortunately, earlier this year a committee [recommended to close the RHIC](http://blogs.nature.com/news/2013/01/ion-collider-flagged-for-closure.html) in the case of future budget cuts, a situation that would leave the U.S. without a particle collider. This was the People's Choice third place image.* *Credit: Steve Zimic*
07william-palin
*Machines roll over a projected image of the Pleiades, an open star cluster in the constellation Taurus. This image was taken at the U.K. Astronomy Technology Centre in Scotland.* *Credit: William Palin*
08angela-davison
*Clouds roll across the view outside Chilbolton Observatory, an atmospheric and radio research facility in the U.K.* *Credit: Angela Davison*
09vince-mo
*Close-up of an apparatus at the U.K. Rutherford Appleton Laboratory.* *Credit: Vince Mo*
10derek-lee
*A dandelion seed caught in an air grating at Canada's nuclear TRIUMF facility.* *Credit: Derek Lee*
11anne-marie-comte
*Metal beams and stacks of 100-ton concrete blocks that provide radiation shielding from flying particles in the Meson Hall at Canada's nuclear TRIUMF facility.* *Credit: Anne-Marie Comte*
12jonathan-benjamin
*The retro-futuristic control room at Canada's nuclear TRIUMF facility.* *Credit: Jonathan Benjamin*
13domenico-santocito
*Architectural details seen around Italy's Laboratori Nazionali del Sud.* *Credit: Domenico Santocito*
14marco-la-ferla
*A colorful piece of the DAFNE positron-electron collider at Italy's Frascati National Laboratory.* *Credit: Marco La Ferla*
