Advanced quantum detectors are reinventing the search for dark matter
When it comes to understanding the universe, what we know is only a sliver of the whole picture.
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Page 2: Research news on Particle phenomena
Particle phenomena, as a research area, encompasses the theoretical and experimental investigation of processes, interactions, and emergent behaviors involving elementary and composite particles, primarily within high-energy and nuclear physics. It focuses on quantifying scattering amplitudes, decay channels, production cross-sections, and correlation patterns governed by the Standard Model and its proposed extensions. Research in particle phenomena typically addresses gauge interactions, symmetry breaking, confinement, hadronization, and collective effects in many-body systems such as quark–gluon plasma. The field integrates accelerator-based experiments, detector technology, and advanced computational methods to test fundamental symmetries, probe new physics scales, and refine effective field theories describing particle interactions.
Searching for light dark matter by tracking its direction with quantum sensors
Dark matter is an elusive type of matter that does not emit, absorb or reflect light, interacting very weakly with ordinary matter. These characteristics make it impossible to detect using conventional technologies used by ...
Search for elusive neutrino multiplets tightens limits on cosmic particle origins
The origins of extremely high-energy particles that fill the universe—such as protons, electrons, and neutrinos—remain one of the longest-standing mysteries in modern astrophysics. A leading hypothesis suggests that "explosive ...
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US and Japan join forces to present some of the most precise neutrino measurements in the field
Very early on in our universe, when it was a seething hot cauldron of energy, particles made of matter and antimatter bubbled into existence in equal proportions. For example, negatively charged electrons were created in ...
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Oct 22, 2025
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Beauty meson decay confirms tension with Standard Model predictions
A new LHCb analysis confirms a previously observed tension with the Standard Model, but more data and improved theoretical calculations are needed to determine whether new physics is at play.
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Sep 24, 2025
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Higgs-boson properties clarified through decay pattern analysis
The ATLAS collaboration finds evidence of Higgs-boson decays to muons and improves sensitivity to Higgs-boson decays to a Z boson and a photon.
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Jul 11, 2025
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Q&A: Physics and the value of scientific disappointment
Sharing disappointing results with a world of researchers working to find what they hope will be the "discovery of the century" isn't an easy task, but that is what Penn State theoretical physicist Zoltan Fodor and his international ...
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Jun 12, 2025
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New data from ALICE may contribute to solving the cosmic muon puzzle
Cosmic rays are high-energy particles from outer space that strike Earth's atmosphere, generating showers of secondary particles, such as muons, that can reach the planet's surface. In recent years, ground-based experiments ...
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Intriguing excess of top-quark pairs hints at discovery of smallest composite particle
The CMS collaboration at CERN has observed an unexpected feature in data produced by the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), which could point to the existence of the smallest composite particle yet observed. The result, reported ...
General Physics
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Might the proton decay in other places or at other times?
Does the proton decay? While this was a famous prediction of Grand Unified Theories (GUTS) developed in the 1970s and 1980s, experimentalists have ruled it out—or rather, put lower limits on its mean lifetime of about 1034 ...
