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

Credit: Stephen Brashear/Getty Images for Microsoft Who doesn't love theoretical physics papers on a Friday? Today, April 9, a voluminous seventy-nine page research paper titled "The self-taught universe" has been uploaded (via tnw). Its…

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 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…

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…

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…

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…

Newswise - LOS ALAMOS, New Mexico, January 11, 2021—Experimental and theoretical scientists seeking an opportunity to pursue research in neutron scattering, dynamic materials, isotope production, and applied and basic nuclear physics…

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…

MIT researchers recently demonstrated that using artificial intelligence to simulate aspects of nuclear physics particles and theories can lead to faster algorithms, and therefore faster discoveries in theoretical physics. The MIT research…

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…

The Large Hadron Collider is the largest machine on Earth and one of the most complex scientific instruments ever built. It uses powerful electromagnets to propel beams of charged particles at nearly the speed of light and manipulates…

Picture A thin film on the surface of the liquid, which is stretched at the interface. As it is gently peeled, the stress marks…

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…

Theoretical physicists at Trinity have found a deep connection between one of the most striking features of quantum mechanics – quantum entanglement – ​​and thermalization, which is the process by which something comes into thermal…

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…

Over the past few decades, machine learning has revolutionized many sectors of society, with machines learning to drive cars, identify tumors and play chess, often surpassing their human counterparts.Now, a team of scientists based at…

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…

Explore open likelihoods of ATLAS on the HEPData platform. (Original image: Ahmet Anil Sen/Behance) What if you could test a new theory against LHC data? Better yet, what if the specialist knowledge needed to do this was captured in a…

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…

In the past, theoretical physicists were considered more intelligent than their experimental brethren. Because they didn't need labs. Not everyone was convinced. Heisenberg, the uncertainty principle guy (1), only got his…

Qwerty123uiop Wikimedia Commons Quarks are elementary particles with no substructure. Understanding them is crucial to learning how physics works at the smallest levels. By studying the collisions…

One of the fundamental principles of quantum mechanics is quantum superposition, in which a particle exists simultaneously in two or more states. In one paper published in the journal Nature CommunicationUniversity of Queensland…

She worked for a summer at the European Organization for Nuclear Research in Geneva, known as CERN, the world's largest nuclear accelerator, before graduating from Stanford in 1980. She went on to Harvard, getting his doctorate. in 1984.…

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The electronic properties of materials can be directly influenced by absorbing light in less than a femtosecond (10-15 seconds), which is considered the limit of the maximum achievable speed of electronic circuits. On the other hand, the…

We may not know the meaning of life, but we are getting closer to knowing what it is made of. The answer to our huge questions starts small: particle physics. Step back layer after layer, channel a lot of energy into…

Professor John Terning and Dr Christopher Verhaaren of the University of California, Davis have a new candidate for dark matter - a dark monopoly - and a possible way to detect it. Nobody knows what dark matter is, but this invisible…

To what extent is the climate catastrophe really…

The Large Hadron Collider is the largest particle accelerator in the world. It is a 26 kilometer long underground ring, located at CERN in Geneva, in which protons collide at a speed close to light. With a price tag of $5 billion and an…

Before you brush off this post with the "sure" response, let me qualify the title. Of course, anyone can become a particle physicist, although the learning curve can be steep and difficult to climb. But what I mean here is…

In this artist's depiction, an electron orbits the nucleus of an atom, rotating around its axis as a cloud of other…

Particle physics has historically been the site of long-standing scientific challenges between the United States and Europe, particularly since the birth of the CERN laboratories in 1954. And in parallel, another challenge…

Posted: Sep 11, 2018 (News from Nanowerk) Particle physicists are looking for light. Not just any light, but a characteristic signal produced by the interaction of certain particles - such as ghostly neutrinos, which are…

If you've been following recent high-level appointments in the artificial intelligence and machine learning industry, you would have noticed a marked increase in the number of theoretical physicists in senior positions at companies…

August 17, 2018&ball; Physics 11, 82The ultimate reference on all things particle physics is available online, with a lite version of the booklet to follow soon. APS The 60th anniversary edition of the Particle Physics Review…

Experiments at the Large Hadron Collider produce about one million gigabytes of data every second. Even after reduction and compression, the data accumulated in just one hour at the LHC is similar to the volume of data that Facebook…

A massive project to supercharge the world's largest particle collider was launched on Friday in hopes the boosted machine will reveal new information about the nature of the universe.The 950m Swiss franc (£720m) mission will see the…

My copy of the forthcoming book by Sabine Hossenfelder. Chad Orzel Sabine Hossenfelder, another old school physics blogger, has released a new book, Lost in Math: How Beauty Misleads Physics…

The volume of data that particle physicists have to sort through at the Large Hadron Collider is staggering, and it's about to increase by an order of magnitude. To cope with this torrent of data, CERN is turning to machine learning,…

On Twitter-land, Rhett Allain made an observation regarding his class that touched me: Sometimes students treat labs like a new gimmick. Take it out of the box, but the batteries and use it. If that doesn't work, go back and read…

Physicists in China are on the verge of "vacuum breaking" - a phenomenon created by lasers of unprecedented power that physically rip particles out of empty space, showing that matter and energy are interchangeable, as Albert Einstein…

The smallest pieces of the universe are governed by a beautiful and mind-boggling set of rules: the "standard model". The Standard Model explains the behavior of the 17 particles discovered and continues to make predictions that have been…

Colleagues, students celebrate the success of the teacher, his passion for science A professor once recalled how 16-year-old Larry Sulak came across in an interview for an unpaid summer job in his lab: "A bright-eyed, bubbly…

Julien Prisco is a futurist, theoretical physicist and computer scientist. He writes about science, technology and the future. He is also co-founder of Space cooperative.An attempt theoretical explanation for the mysterious and…

In the summer of 1958, Alladi Ramakrishnan returned to his elegant bungalow, Ekamra Nivas, in Madras after an unpaid sabbatical in the United States. The young Reader from the University of Madras had spent a year in Institute…

Artistic impression of a space-time twist in a crystal. Credit: University of Oxford Are…

Only a small part of the universe is made up of visible matter. From a distance, most of it is invisible and consists of dark matter and dark energy. Very little is known about dark energy, but there are many theories and experiments…

North America's largest particle physics project is taking its first steps, and CU Boulder is involved. Our understanding of the universe may soon change thanks to the efforts of a thousand scientists around the world, including two from…

Each time physicists discover a new particle, the Standard Model gets one step closer to becoming a Super Model. Key pointsThe Standard Model fits the quantum world perfectly, but it can't explain gravity, dark matter, or dark…

A four-muon candidate event in the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. The muon/anti-muon... tracks are highlighted in red because long-lived muons travel farther than any other unstable particle.…

Theoretical physicists have advanced a new hypothesis that aims to connect the world of visible physics to the hidden forces of our Universe: what if there was a portal that would bridge the gap between the Standard Model and dark matter…

Neutrinos are among the most mysterious particles that exist. They are extremely difficult to detect because they tend to avoid other particles, but we know that they are expelled by supernovae, that one hundred trillion pass through our…

When computers independently identify bodies of water and their outlines in satellite images, or beat the world's best professional players at the board game Go, adaptive algorithms are working in the background. Programmers provide these…

Working together, particle physicists from the United States and around the world have made exciting progress this year in our understanding of the universe at the smallest and largest scales. The LIGO…

Particle physics is amazing - an impressive combination of ambitious research and technical skill. Theorists have constructed a picture of our universe on the smallest scale, and experimentalists have devised the most ambitious experiments…

The Standard Model of particle physics is a remarkable theory. Its foundations are as solidly established as those of any other field of scientific research. So I would like to make a modest proposal to particle physicists: Start talking…

Recent findings from a team of experimental nuclear physicists in Hungary pointing to the possible discovery of a new subatomic particle could be evidence of a fifth force of nature, according to a team of theoretical physicists from the…

With tens of thousands of particle physicists working around the world today, the biggest challenge a researcher can have is keeping up with what others are doing. The articles they write, the collaborations…

Kristin Wiig will play badass particle physicist Erin Gilbert in the new ghost hunters, coming to theaters in July. In the official trailer, which was released on Thursday, fellow ectoplasm blaster Abby Yates, played by Melissa McCarthy,…

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Physicists around the world (myself included) are hoping that this week will usher in a new era of discovery. And not, as some fear, the end of particle physics as we know it. After 27 months of shutdown and return to service, the…

The Standard Model of particle physics, which describes every particle we know of and how they interact, received a lot of credit when the Higgs boson was discovered in 2012. Now measurements of a rare particle physics decay particles…

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Particle physics will become even more of an international enterprise in the coming decades, according to a panel tasked with developing a strategic plan for the future of particle physics in the United States, whose long-awaited…

This week marks the end of a multi-step community planning process that will shape the coming decades of particle physics in the United States. On Thursday, the Particle Physics Project Prioritization Panel, or P5, will present its report —…

iron man 2the second installment of Iron Man film franchise, finds hero Tony Stark in a pickle: The "arc reactor" in Stark's chest (which generates magnetic fields to stop the movement of shrapnel through his body) is powered by palladium,…

Particle physics research in the United States is a distributed effort involving researchers across the country. In 2013, more than 150 universities and laboratories in 43 states (plus Washington DC and Puerto Rico) received funding from…

As emerging players shake up old ambitions, Nigel Lockyer calls for the next generation of particle physics projects to be coordinated on a global scale.…