Particle physics

At the turn of the 4th century BC, the Greek philosopher Democritus smelled the smell of pastry and thought that small pieces of bread must have been floating through the air and into his nose. He…

Two of tritium's three nucleons can form short-range correlations that include a proton and one of its neutrons or two neutrons. Credit: DOE's Jefferson LabWhen the odds are equal, particles pair up with others of the same type more often…

Three young physicists from the University of California at Riverside are thinking big. Gigantic-particle-great accelerator. Undergraduate students Andrew Caruso, Robert Vasquez and Selim Zoorob completed internships this summer at the…

Despite the fact that accelerator operators are essential to keeping an accelerator lab afloat, the role is largely unknown outside of physics, even to the people who end up in this position. "It was a kind of position that I didn't…

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The classic description of a proton says it contains three smaller particles - two up quarks and a down quark -…

VICTOR HABBICK VISIONS/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARYGetty Images From the outside, the high-speed collisions of atomic nuclei inside particle accelerators like CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) may seem to…

Imagine a particle physicist. What do they look like when they do their research? According to Dr. Jonathan Lee Feng, professor of physics and astronomy at UC Irvine, there is a certain popular image of what a scientist…

Photographic Discovery: The exhibit offers an impressive insight into particle research. (Photo: B. Lorentz / CERN) Large-format and fascinating images from basic research will be presented by the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)…

LAS CRUCES - Many people learn in elementary school that the main components that make up all matter on earth are protons, neutrons and electrons. However, the true foundations of atoms are smaller and much more enigmatic than the school…

Photo by Jorge Fernández Salas on UnsplashProbing non-standard interactions of neutrinos with a light boson of the next galactic and diffuse supernova neutrinos(arXiv)Author : Kensuke Akita, Sang Hui Im, Mehedi MasudSummary : Nonstandard…

An illustration of events recorded with the CMS detector in 2012 shows the expected characteristics of the decay of a Higgs boson (dashed yellow lines) into a pair of photons (green towers).Credit:…

Ten years ago, physicists from the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) announced the discovery of a newly discovered subatomic particle: the Higgs boson. The particle was the latest piece of particle physics theory known as…

The researchers observed for the first time the "dead cone effect".The dead cone effect is a fundamental element of the strong nuclear force, responsible for binding quarks and gluons.This work, published last month in the journal…

After the Higgs, the Large Hadron Collider was to find other theorized particles. It's not, but particle…

Fundamentals of particle physics The entities described by the Standard Model include 12 particles called fermions and 5 called bosons. fermion are particles that you can think of as forms of matter, like the familiar electron. Other…

A charmed quark (c) in a shower of partons loses energy by emitting radiation in the form of gluons (g). The shower…

After the war, some physicists chose to work in fundamental physics, collaborating in large laboratories to deepen our knowledge of the universe. Others have developed medical technologies: cancer therapies, including radiation therapy,…

A recent series of precise measurements of already known standard particles and processes threatens to turn physics upside down.As a physicist working at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in CERN, one of the most common questions I get is…

As a physicist working at CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC), one of the most common questions I get asked is "When are you going to find something?" Resist the temptation to sarcastically respond “Apart from the Higgs boson, which won…

AAs a physicist working on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, one of the most common questions I get asked is "When are you going to find something?" ". Resisting the temptation to sarcastically reply "Besides the Higgs boson, which…

The story so far: On April 7, researchers from the Collider Detector at Fermilab (CDF) Collaboration, in the United States, announced, through an article in Science, that they made an accurate measurement of the mass of the so-called W…

As a physicist working at CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC), one of the most common questions I get asked is "When are you going to find something?" Resist the temptation to answer sarcastically "Apart from the Higgs boson,…

The storage ring magnet for the Muon G-2 experiment at Fermilab.Lancaster, UK: As a physicist working at CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC), one of the most common questions I get asked is "When are you going to find…

As a physicist working at CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC), one of the most common questions I get asked is "When are you going to find something?" Resisting the temptation to sarcastically reply “Apart from…

As a physicist working at CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC), one of the most common questions I get asked is "When are you going to find something?" ". Resisting the temptation to sarcastically reply “Apart from the Higgs boson,…

The scattering processes that can occur in proton collisions at CERN's Large Hadron Collider show a new and surprising duality in theoretical particle physics.A new and surprising duality has been discovered in theoretical particle physics.…

April 26, 2022Reviewed by Alex Smith In theoretical particle physics, a new and interesting duality has been discovered. The duality exists between two types of scattering processes likely to occur in the collisions of protons carried out…

What is the nature of matter, how does the Universe work and how does it affect us? In my book, The matter of everything, I explore how our adventures in the heart of matter have profoundly changed the world. This isn't just a theoretical…

On the left side we have a diffusion process involving two gluons (green/yellow and blue/cyan) interacting to produce…

SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4) – On April 22, 2022, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) was restarted after a three-year upgrade. Located under the France-Switzerland border, the LHC is one of the primary means by which particle physicists…

The model we have for understanding the fundamental particles of the universe is a bit like a gearbox: a small change in the properties of a single particle also disrupts the mechanics of other particles. So when a…

For the first time, physicists have extracted the "energy-dependent neutrino-argon interaction cross section", a key value for studying how neutrinos change flavor Physicists studying ghost particles called neutrinos from the…

A tiny subatomic particle called a W boson could be heavier than scientists previously thought and could upend the big one theory of everything. Scientists at the US's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory have spent 10 years analyzing…

Hello Nature readers, would you like to receive this Briefing in your inbox for free every day? Register here. Fermilab's Tevatron particle collider in Batavia, Illinois was once the most powerful…

The most precise measurement ever made of the mass of the W boson shows a tension with the standard model.After 10 years of analysis and scrutiny, scientists from the Collider Detector at Fermilab (CDF) collaboration at the US Department of…

After a decade of analyses, a collaboration of physicists has made the most accurate measurement of the mass of a key particle - and it could unravel physics as we know it. The new measurement differs dramatically from predictions based on…

By Alex Wilkins The Tevatron particle accelerator at Fermilab, Illinois, photographed in 1992GRANGER/Alamy A new measurement of a fundamental particle called the W boson appears to challenge…

One of the main challenges in particle physics is how to interpret large datasets consisting of many different observables in the context of models with different parameters. A new article published in EPJ Moreauthored by Ursula Laa from…

Brunel University London has been supported by funding from the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) to play its part in the future of particle physics research. The university is one of 18 UK institutions to…

Lancaster University has received £2.9 million from the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) as part of its ongoing support for the particle physics research community in the UK.This funding helps keep the UK at the forefront of…

The funding is part of a wider £60m investment from the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) to keep the UK at the forefront of global particle physics research and to support the next generation of British particle physicists.…

Physicists at the University of Sheffield have been awarded more than £2.6 million to answer fundamental questions about the composition of the universe.…

Physicists at the University of Liverpool are receiving £6.59m from the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) as part of a £60m investment to continue supporting the physics research…

In response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the politicians who control Europe's particle physics laboratory, CERN, are trying to strike a delicate balance. In a special session, the CERN Council,…

It doesn't answer the most fundamental mystery: what constitutes the dark energy and dark matter that make up the majority of our universe? The Standard Model became the fundamental model of elementary particle physics in the second half…

Particle physicists working at CERN and theologians will discuss the commonalities between particle physics, philosophy and religion during a panel discussion to be held at Liverpool Cathedral. The…

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How does our world work at the subatomic level? The standard model. What a boring name for the most accurate scientific theory known to human beings. More than a quarter of the Nobel Prizes in Physics of the last century are direct inputs…

If the neutrino model correctly determines their original energies, it should also provide appropriate values ​​for the electrons after careful calculations. The researchers took data from an experiment in which beams of…

A professor of physics completes the board of directors of the Research CenterFirst woman on the board of DESY: Beate Heinemann. Image: DESY / Angela PfeifferBeate Heinemann, DESY Principal Investigator and Professor of Physics at the…

Mixed reality headsets aren't just for playing VR games on Earth: Astronauts aboard the International Space Station use an augmented reality (AR) system based on commercial Microsoft HoloLens hardware with software built on measure.…

About 25 years ago, astrophysicists noticed something very interesting about the Universe. The fact that it was expanding had been known since the 1920s, thanks to the observation of Edwin Hubble. But thanks to the observations that…

MicroBooNE detector being lowered into the Fermilab experimental facility. Credit: Fermilab…

MicroBooNE detector being lowered into the Fermilab experimental facility. Photo courtesy Fermilab LANL PRESS RELEASE New results from a more than a decade-long physics experiment offer insight into unexplained…

Particle physics is the quest to discover the fundamental components of the universe by analyzing, cataloging and measuring the particles that combine to create everything. It's no easy task - the variety and variability of these…

We're going to change gears slightly to talk about another type of mysterious particle, called a neutrino. Like an electron, but with no electrical charge and very small mass, neutrinos are one of the most abundant particles in the…

The role of science in our everyday world has perhaps never been more important than in the past 18 months as a pandemic gripped the world. With that in mind, teaching the next generation of scientists is mission critical, and…

Representative image. | Photo credit: iStock Images What the universe is made up of at the most fundamental levels is a question that continues to both fascinate and…

About 25 years ago, astrophysicists noticed something very interesting about the Universe. The fact that it was expanding had been known since the 1920s, thanks to the observation of Edwin Hubble. But thanks to the observations that…

Imagine taking a time-lapse photo of a clear sky at night. The photograph will be filled with circular arcs of light that reflect the movement of stars across the sky as the Earth rotates around its axis.…

© CERN/M. HochThe German government has allocated 6.25 million euros of funds for research on experimental particle physics over the next three years, the University of Hamburg announced on Monday (August 30, 2021). The funds will benefit…

Steven Weinberg '54, the theoretical physicist whose Nobel Prize-winning work transformed scientists' understanding of fundamental forces, died on July 23. He was 88 years old. " is basically the foundation of everything we do in…

The American theoretical particle physicist Steven Weinberg, who died at the age of 88, was one of the leading figures of the 20th century in this field. In 1979, he won a Nobel Prize for his work uniting two of nature's fundamental…

Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of the unified theory of weak and electromagnetic interactions, he was an outspoken rationalist and critic of climate change deniers. Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his…

July 22, 2021 - The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory will house one of the nation's first exascale supercomputers when Aurora arrives in 2022. To prepare code for the architecture and System-wide, 15 research…

New quantum materials that promise to power future communications, AI-based research to uncover fundamental laws of physics, and a project to build biomolecular engines have been selected for funding through the Eric and Wendy Schmidt…

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Lately the internet has been flooded with stories about the Standard Model of particle physics having been broken.These stories stem from a recent experiment by physicists at Fermilab in Illinois, where a group of scientists discovered…

Haiyan Gao, nuclear physicist and professor, will join the lab as associate lab director for nuclear and particle physicsUPTON, NY – Haiyan Gao, currently the Henry W. Newson Professor Emeritus of Physics at Duke University, will join the…

Haiyan Gao, nuclear physicist and professor, will join the lab as associate lab director for nuclear and particle physicsUPTON, NY – Haiyan Gao, currently the Henry W. Newson Professor Emeritus of Physics at Duke University, will join the…

There's a lot of suspension on the unintended wobble. Muons, heavier cousins ​​of electrons, don't behave as expected when thrown through a strong magnetic field, an Illinois lab reports. By teetering…

The 50-foot-wide hippodrome used to study muons traveled by barge around Florida and Mississippi, then by truck through Illinois. Reidar…

The results of one of the most eagerly awaited experiments in particle physics have arrived, and they could be about to make every researcher's wildest dreams come true: they might, might, shatter physics. as we know it.Evidence from the…

In 2013, Popular mechanics Contributor William Herkewitz covered the harrowing journey of a gargantuan electromagnet - which would become a vital part of the upcoming Muon g-2 experiment - from Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton,…

The Standard Model of particle physics currently provides our best description of fundamental particles and their interactions. New results from CERN's LHCb (Large Hadron Collider beauty) collaboration suggest that the particles are not…

CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is designed to probe the limits of known physics, and now the facility has discovered particles that aren't behaving as expected. Although still early, the discovery hints at the existence of new…

For almost a century, physics has been stretched in a tussle between the science of the very big and the indescribably small. For planets and galaxies, gravity is easily noticeable. But in the realm of microparticle interactions, gravity…

Analyzing the mountains of data generated by the Large Hadron Collider at the European CERN laboratory takes so long that even computers need coffee. Or rather, Coffea — Columnar Object Framework for Effective Analysis. A package in the…

LEAD - When the Large Underground Xenon (LUX) experiment completed its…