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The Standard Model of Particle Physics May Be Broken – Large Hadron Collider Physicist Explains

Betty R. Rodrigues May 15, 2022
Particle physics

A physicist explains that the standard model of particle physics can…

Particle physics

The Standard Model of Particle Physics Could Be Broken, Says Expert

Particle physics

The standard model of particle physics can be broken

Particle physics

The Standard Model of Particle Physics May Be Broken – Expert…

Particle physics

Particle physics expert Ann Nelson dies aged 61

Betty R. Rodrigues Aug 28, 2019
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.…
Theoretical physicists

Theoretical physicists unveil one of the most

Betty R. Rodrigues Jul 1, 2019
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Experimental physicists

Experimental physicists are redefining superfast and coherent magnetism

Betty R. Rodrigues Jun 26, 2019
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…
Particle physics

The Next Step in Particle Physics Involves the ‘Lego Game’ of the Universe

Betty R. Rodrigues Jun 25, 2019
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…
Theoretical physicists

Dark Monopolies: Theoretical Physicists Propose a New Candidate for Dark Matter | Physics

Betty R. Rodrigues Jun 13, 2019
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…
Particle physics

The Large Hadron Collider was not a failure for particle physics.

Betty R. Rodrigues Jan 31, 2019
To what extent is the climate catastrophe really…
Particle physics

Reviews | The uncertain future of particle physics

Betty R. Rodrigues Jan 23, 2019
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…
Experimental physicists

Can statisticians become experimental physicists?

Betty R. Rodrigues Oct 19, 2018
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…
Particle physics

Bringing the power of nanotechnology to particle physics

Betty R. Rodrigues Sep 11, 2018
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…
Theoretical physicists

Theoretical physicists hold the key to some of artificial intelligence’s toughest problems

Betty R. Rodrigues Sep 11, 2018
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…
Particle physics

Review of Particle Physics celebrates its 60th anniversary

Betty R. Rodrigues Aug 17, 2018
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…
Particle physics

Machine learning proliferates in particle physics

Betty R. Rodrigues Aug 1, 2018
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…
Particle physics

£720m Large Hadron Collider upgrade ‘could shake up particle physics’ | Large Hadron…

Betty R. Rodrigues Jun 15, 2018
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…
Particle physics

The difference between particle physics and quantum foundations

Betty R. Rodrigues Jun 14, 2018
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…
Particle physics

Particle physics gets the machine learning treatment as collider data grows – TechCrunch

Betty R. Rodrigues May 4, 2018
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,…
Particle physics

A new laser could tear apart the vacuum of space and convert light into matter

Betty R. Rodrigues Jan 29, 2018
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…
Particle physics

Larry Sulak Wins First US Prize in Experimental Particle Physics | The edge

Betty R. Rodrigues Nov 6, 2017
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…
Theoretical physicists

Theoretical physicists are one step closer to explaining how NASA’s ‘impossible’…

Betty R. Rodrigues Oct 31, 2017
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…
Theoretical physicists

Gravitational twists help theoretical physicists shed light on quantum complexity

Betty R. Rodrigues Sep 27, 2017
Artistic impression of a space-time twist in a crystal. Credit: University of Oxford Are…
Theoretical physicists

Theoretical physicists present an alternative to the WIMP paradigm

Betty R. Rodrigues Aug 8, 2017
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…
Particle physics

Largest particle physics experiment in North America inaugurates | Colorado Arts and Sciences…

Betty R. Rodrigues Jul 20, 2017
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…
Particle physics

The Standard Model of Particle Physics is Brilliant and Completely Flawed

Betty R. Rodrigues Jul 14, 2017
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…
Particle physics

Can Muons – which live only a few microseconds

Betty R. Rodrigues Apr 7, 2017
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

Theoretical Physicists Suggest There’s a Portal Connecting the Standard Model to Dark Physics

Betty R. Rodrigues Mar 24, 2017
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…
Particle physics

Scientists prove a decades-old theory that could change particle physics

Betty R. Rodrigues Mar 8, 2017
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…
Theoretical physicists

Theoretical Physicists Deliberately Fooled Intelligent Machines

Betty R. Rodrigues Feb 13, 2017
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…
Particle physics

Year 2016 in particle physics

Betty R. Rodrigues Dec 20, 2016
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

It’s time for particle physics to go back to the future

Betty R. Rodrigues Dec 14, 2016
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…
Theoretical physicists

Theoretical physicists confirm the possible discovery of the fifth fundamental force of nature |…

Betty R. Rodrigues Aug 16, 2016
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…
Particle physics

The most important site in particle physics

Betty R. Rodrigues Jul 26, 2016
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…
Particle physics

Fact-checking particle physics in the ‘Ghostbusters’ trailer with a real physicist

Betty R. Rodrigues Mar 3, 2016
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,…
Theoretical physicists

Meta and Theoretical Physicists Talk Time Travel for ‘Back to the Future’

Betty R. Rodrigues Oct 20, 2015
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Particle physics

Is this the end of particle physics as we know it? Let’s hope not

Betty R. Rodrigues Jun 5, 2015
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…
Particle physics

Discovery of particle physics raises hopes for a theory of everything

Betty R. Rodrigues May 15, 2015
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…
Theoretical physicists

What do theoretical physicists actually do?

Betty R. Rodrigues May 7, 2015
Share this Item You are free to share this article under the Attribution 4.0 International License.…
Particle physics

Coming soon: plan for the future of particle physics in the United States

Betty R. Rodrigues May 19, 2014
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 —…
Particle physics

Superheroes and particle physics: the dynamic duo

Betty R. Rodrigues Mar 25, 2014
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

Particle physics: Together towards the next frontier

Betty R. Rodrigues Dec 18, 2013
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.…
Particle physics

How particle physics can save your life

Betty R. Rodrigues Nov 5, 2013
The same particle physics technology used to understand the universe is also used to improve health and medicine. Accelerators and detectors play an important role in the diagnosis of diseases, the reduction of tumors and the sterilization…
Particle physics

Planning for the future of particle physics in the United States moves forward

Betty R. Rodrigues Nov 1, 2013
Saturday begins a new stage in the process that will set the priorities for US particle physics research for the next decade. The federal government's Particle Physics Research Advisory Group has appointed a group, called the Particle…
Particle physics

Could the Nobel Prize for the “divine particle” be the last gasp for particle physics?

Betty R. Rodrigues Oct 8, 2013
"Finally here!" With this unusual but understandable exuberance, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced today that it has awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics to François Englert and Peter Higgs. Nearly half a century ago,…
Particle physics

Announcing the Winner of “Why Particle Physics Matters”

Betty R. Rodrigues Sep 10, 2013
At a major particle physics planning meeting this summer, a few dozen physicists volunteered to speak on camera about why they do what they do. We at symmetry chose our top five explanations and asked you to vote for your favorite. The…
Particle physics

Scientists look to the next decades of particle physics in the United States

Betty R. Rodrigues Jul 29, 2013
Today, more than 600 particle physicists from nearly 100 universities and laboratories gathered at the Minneapolis campus of the University of Minnesota. Over the next nine days, this diverse group of experts, who study the most…
Particle physics

How Particle Physics Improves Your Life

Betty R. Rodrigues Mar 26, 2013
Layers Using particle accelerators, chemists were able to see the detailed wet structure of the superabsorbent polymer material used in the diapers for the first time. This allowed them to tweak and improve the formula of superabsorbent…
Particle physics

From particle physics to the computer industry

Betty R. Rodrigues Sep 11, 2012
In particle physics, advanced computing is a way of life. Studying the universe on the smallest scale requires some of the largest datasets in the world, and particle physicists often have to create their own solutions to computational…
Theoretical physicists

9 theoretical physicists win huge new cash prize

Betty R. Rodrigues Jul 31, 2012
From Nature magazine A billionaire internet tycoon has awarded a record $27 million to nine physicists for their work on fundamental theory. Yuri Milner, who made his fortune investing in social media companies, announced the new…
Particle physics

International committee maps the future of particle physics

Betty R. Rodrigues Oct 4, 2011
Image from the Beacons of Discovery report, by Reidar Hahn. This week, an international organization released its vision for the future of particle physics around the world. The International Committee for Future Accelerators has posted…
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