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General Physics Dec 11, 2023

Advisory panel issues field-defining recommendations for US government investments in particle physics research

A new Particle Physics Project Prioritization Panel (P5) report has been released by the High Energy Physics Advisory Panel (HEPAP) to the High Energy Physics program of the Office of Science of the U.S. Department of Energy ...

General Physics Nov 13, 2023

The CMS collaboration at CERN presents its latest search for 'dark photons'

The CMS experiment has presented its first search for new physics using data from Run 3 of the Large Hadron Collider. The new study looks at the possibility of "dark photon" production in the decay of Higgs bosons in the ...

General Physics Nov 3, 2023

Physicists ask: Can we make a particle collider more energy efficient?

Ever since the discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012, physicists have wanted to build new particle colliders to better understand the properties of that elusive particle and probe elementary particle physics at ever-higher ...

General Physics Oct 10, 2023

ATLAS sets stringent limits on the existence of supersymmetric dark matter particles

If new particles are out there, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the ideal place to search for them. The theory of supersymmetry suggests that a whole new family of partner particles exists for each of the known fundamental ...

General Physics Aug 26, 2023

The first observation of neutrinos at CERN's Large Hadron Collider

Neutrinos are tiny and neutrally charged particles accounted for by the Standard Model of particle physics. While they are estimated to be some of the most abundant particles in the universe, observing them has so far proved ...

General Physics Aug 10, 2023

Muon g-2 doubles down with latest measurement, explores uncharted territory in search of new physics

Physicists now have a brand-new measurement of a property of the muon called the anomalous magnetic moment that improves the precision of their previous result by a factor of 2.

General Physics Jul 28, 2023

Looking for sterile neutrinos in the CMS muon system

The CMS collaboration has recently presented new results in searches for long-lived heavy neutral leptons (HNLs). Also known as "sterile neutrinos", HNLs are interesting hypothetical particles that could solve three major ...

General Physics Jul 21, 2023

ATLAS sets record precision on Higgs boson's mass

In the 11 years since its discovery at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the Higgs boson has become a central avenue for shedding light on the fundamental structure of the universe. Precise measurements of the properties of ...

General Physics Jul 20, 2023

Is the end of the 'particle era' of physics upon us?

The discovery of the Higgs Boson in 2012 represented a major turning point for particle physics marking the completion of what is known as the standard model of particle physics. Yet, the standard model can't answer every ...

General Physics Jul 17, 2023

What does the Standard Model predict for the magnetic moment of the muon?

Predicting the numerical value of the magnetic moment of the muon is one of the most challenging calculations in high-energy physics. Some physicists spend the bulk of their careers improving the calculation to greater precision.

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