Particle physics

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…

After their creation, the partons (quarks and gluons) undergo a cascade of events called the rain of partons. They lose energy by emitting radiation in the form of gluons, which also emit gluons. The radiation pattern of this shower…

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…

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 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…

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…

2-year term full-time job, located on the Camperdown campus of the School of Physics Opportunity to contribute to research focused on theoretical particle physics Base salary Level A $95,000 - $98,000 pa + 17%…

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…

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…

Jack Steinberger, who died at the age of 99, was one of three winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1988 for his work on neutrinos and the discovery of the muon neutrino. This research has done much to advance the understanding of…

SANTA CRUZ — The Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics experienced a leadership transition early in the new year after Steven Ritz, a physics professor at UC Santa Cruz, resigned as director of the institute. Ritz was director of the…

Imagine this: a stationary object such as a vase suddenly explodes, sending fragments flying. Given the final energies and momentum of the fragments, can you determine the mass of the object before it shattered? Dave Fish introduces…

Through US Department of Energy November 17, 2020 The standard model includes particles of matter (quarks and leptons), force-carrying particles (bosons) and the Higgs boson. Credit: Illustration courtesy of Sandbox Studio, Chicago for…

Typical magnetic field variations as mapped by the trolley at different positions in the storage ring of the Muon g-2…

Chris QuiggFermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois, USAOctober 5, 2020&ball; Physics 13, 156Particle physicists in the United States are embarking on a year-long community study to examine options for the future…

The Standard Model of particle physics describes all known elementary particles and three of the four fundamental forces governing the universe; anything but gravity. These three forces - electromagnetic, strong…

A new ATLAS measurement of a key Standard Model feature known as lepton flavor universality suggests that an earlier discrepancy measured by the LEP collider in W boson decays may be due to fluctuation. The best-known particle of the…

In just six weeks, from March 19 to May 1, an international team of physicists and engineers led by Princeton's Christian Galbiati brought a fan from concept to FDA approval. The US Food and Drug Administration announced on Sunday May 3…

If, while spending more time at home, you develop a desire for more particle physics in your life, look no further. You can learn all about the weird world of subatomic particles by browsing through the information below. Dive into the…

The LHCb experiment at CERN. Credit: CERN The new LHCb analysis still sees the previous intriguing result: the new analysis continues to find tensions with the Standard Model, but more data is needed to identify its cause. At a…

Large-scale particle physics produces large amounts of data as a result - and this is particularly true of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world's largest particle accelerator, which is housed at the European Organization for Nuclear…

Display of a simulated particle collision event with a High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC) in an upgraded ATLAS detector. The event has an average of 200 collisions per particle packet crossing. (Credit: ATLAS/CERN…

Jason Heeris, a physicist and signal processing engineer in southeastern Australia, went semi-viral in mid-September 2019 for a tweet about how he tried to put his 3-year-old son to sleep with a lecture on the Standard Model of…

Although abstract by nature, mathematics has concrete origins: the greatest advances have been inspired by the natural world. Recently, a new result in linear algebra was discovered by three…