News tagged with standard model

Homing in on Higgs: Michigan researchers predict summer discovery (w/ Video)

(Phys.org) -- Whether the Higgs boson exists could be settled by the end of summer, say University of Michigan physicists involved in the search for the missing piece of particle physics' Standard Model.

Physics / General Physics

created Jun 01, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 25 | with audio podcast

Puzzling asymmetries in B decays hint at deviations from the Standard Model

(Phys.org) -- In a recently published paper, the LHCb Collaboration has reported on a possible deviation from the Standard Model. Theorists are now working to calculate precisely this effect and to evaluate ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 28, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (11) | comments 34 | with audio podcast

MAJORANA, the search for the most elusive neutrino of all

(Phys.org) -- In a cavern almost a mile underground in the Black Hills, an experiment called the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR, 40 kilograms of pure germanium crystals enclosed in deep-freeze cryostat modules, will ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 17, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 17 | with audio podcast

Two new excited states of the Lambda-b beauty particle observed by LHCb

In beautiful agreement with the Standard Model, two new excited states of the Λb beauty particle have just been observed by the LHCb Collaboration. Similarly to protons and neutrons, Λb is composed of three qua ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 17, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 5

Do the Milky Way's companions spell trouble for dark matter?

(Phys.org) -- Astronomers from the University of Bonn in Germany have discovered a vast structure of satellite galaxies and clusters of stars surrounding our Galaxy, stretching out across a million light years. ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Apr 25, 2012 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (15) | comments 15 | with audio podcast

Dance like a neutrino: Quantum scheme to simulate neutrino oscillations

The behaviour of some of the most elusive particles in the known universe can be simulated using three atoms in a lab, researchers at the Centre for Quantum Technologies (CQT) at the National University of Singapore have ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Mar 21, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 1

The origins of a torus in a galactic nucleus

(PhysOrg.com) -- Quasars are among the most energetic objects in the universe, with some of them as luminous as ten thousand Milky Way galaxies. Quasars are thought to have massive black holes at their cores, ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Mar 13, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Tevatron experiments report latest results in search for Higgs boson

(PhysOrg.com) -- New measurements announced today by scientists from the CDF and DZero collaborations at the Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory indicate that the elusive Higgs ...

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 07, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (15) | comments 17 | with audio podcast

New measurements of W boson mass point to Higgs mass and test Standard Model

(PhysOrg.com) -- The world’s most precise measurement of the mass of the W boson, one of nature’s elementary particles, has been achieved by scientists from the CDF and DZero collaborations at ...

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 02, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (16) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

Fermilab results add to confidence in explaining less antimatter amounts

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Standard Model of Physics suggests that shortly after the Big Bang there should have been the same amount of antimatter in existence as there was matter. As time passed, both should have ...

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 01, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 18 | with audio podcast report

World's best measurement of W boson mass tests Standard Model, Higgs boson limits

(PhysOrg.com) -- Just as firemen use different methods to narrow the location of a person trapped in a building, scientists employ two techniques to find the hiding place of the theorized Higgs particle: direct ...

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 23, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (26) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

CMS in 2011: A mountain of particle collision data

Datasets are the currency of physics. As data accumulate, measurement uncertainty ranges shrink, increasing the potential for discoveries and making non-observations more stringent, with more far-reaching ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 17, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 5

Interview: 'Next year we will see the Higgs particle - or exclude its existence'

(PhysOrg.com) -- Interview with Prof. Dr. Siegfried Bethke, Director at the Max Planck Institute of Physics in Munich, about the current research results from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 24, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (7) | comments 24

Large Hadron Collider proton run for 2011 reaches successful conclusion

(PhysOrg.com) -- After some 180 days of running and four hundred trillion (4x1014) proton proton collisions, the LHC’s 2011 proton run came to an end at 5.15pm yesterday evening. For the second year runni ...

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 31, 2011 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (15) | comments 11 | with audio podcast

Time reversal: A simple particle could reveal new physics

(PhysOrg.com) -- A simple atomic nucleus could reveal properties associated with the mysterious phenomenon known as time reversal and lead to an explanation for one of the greatest mysteries of physics: the ...

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 11, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (40) | comments 128 | with audio podcast

Standard Model

The Standard Model of particle physics is a theory of three of the four known fundamental interactions and the elementary particles that take part in these interactions. These particles make up all visible matter in the universe. The standard model is a gauge theory of the electroweak and strong interactions with the gauge group SU(3)×SU(2)×U(1).

Every high energy physics experiment carried out since the mid-20th century has eventually yielded findings consistent with the Standard Model. Still, the Standard Model falls short of being a complete theory of fundamental interactions because it does not include gravity, dark matter, or dark energy. It isn't quite a complete description of leptons either, because it does not describe nonzero neutrino masses, although simple natural extensions do.

For more information about Standard Model, read the full article at Wikipedia.
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