An unusual form of cesium atom is helping a University of Queensland-led research team unmask unknown particles that make up the universe.
General Physics
Feb 24, 2023
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International collaboration including MPQ scientists sets a new value for the antiproton mass relative to the electron with unprecedented precision.
General Physics
Jul 28, 2011
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An anomaly spotted at the Large Hadron Collider has prompted scientists to reconsider a mathematical description of the underlying physics. By considering two forces that are distinct in everyday life but unified under extreme ...
General Physics
Dec 10, 2014
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In the early days of quantum physics, in an attempt to explain the wavelike behavior of quantum particles, the French physicist Louis de Broglie proposed what he called a "pilot wave" theory. According to de Broglie, moving ...
Quantum Physics
Jul 29, 2013
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For the first time, researchers have observed a break in a single quantum system. The observation—and how they made the observation—has potential implications for physics beyond the standard understanding of how quantum ...
Quantum Physics
Jun 3, 2019
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Hopes for a new particle discovery that might have up-ended the standard model of physics were dashed on Friday, as scientists admitted that a "bump" in the data was actually just a "blip."
General Physics
Aug 5, 2016
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In a new report now published in Nature Communications Physics, Pedro R. Dieguez and an international team of scientists in quantum technologies, functional quantum systems and quantum physics, developed a new framework of ...
A new research paper co-authored by a Virginia Tech assistant professor of physics provides a new explanation for two recent strange events that occurred in Antarctica—high-energy neutrinos appearing to come up out of the ...
General Physics
Jun 10, 2020
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The common link between liquid-crystal TVs and the birth of the universe, when you look at the big picture, is that they are both characterized by the intriguing phenomenon in which matter abruptly changes states.
Quantum Physics
Jan 15, 2018
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To understand the fundamental nature of our universe, scientists would like to build particle colliders that accelerate electrons and their antimatter counterparts (positrons) to extreme energies (up to tera electron volts, ...
Plasma Physics
Oct 21, 2019
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