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General Physics Apr 23, 2025

Search for sterile neutrinos continues at nuclear reactors

Neutrinos, elusive fundamental particles, can act as a window into the center of a nuclear reactor, the interior of the Earth, or some of the most dynamic objects in the universe. Their tendency to change "flavors" may provide ...

Astronomy Apr 16, 2025

New form of dark matter could solve decades-old Milky Way mystery

Astronomers have long been puzzled by two strange phenomena at the heart of our galaxy. First, the gas in the central molecular zone (CMZ), a dense and chaotic region near the Milky Way's core, appears to be ionized (meaning ...

General Physics Apr 3, 2025

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 Apr 2, 2025

Repurposed smartphone camera sensors create real-time, high-resolution imaging of antiproton annihilations

Did you know that the camera sensor in your smartphone could help unlock the secrets of antimatter? The AEgIS collaboration, led by Professor Christoph Hugenschmidt's team from the research neutron source FRM II at the Technical ...

General Physics Mar 31, 2025

Europe's plans for an even bigger particle collider, explained

Europe's physics lab CERN is planning to build a particle-smasher even bigger than its Large Hadron Collider to continue searching for answers to some of the universe's tiniest yet most profound mysteries.

General Physics Mar 26, 2025

A new piece in the matter–antimatter puzzle: A fundamental asymmetry in the behavior of baryons

On March 24, at the annual Rencontres de Moriond conference taking place in La Thuile, Italy, the LHCb collaboration at CERN reported a new milestone in our understanding of the subtle yet profound differences between matter ...

General Physics Mar 23, 2025

AMoRE experiment sets new limits on neutrinoless double beta decay of ¹⁰⁰Mo

In recent years, some large physics experiments worldwide have been trying to gather evidence of a nuclear process known as neutrinoless double beta (0νββ) decay. This is a rare process that entails the simultaneous decay ...

General Physics Feb 27, 2025

New study sets tighter constraints on elusive sterile neutrinos

Neutrinos have always been difficult to study because their small mass and neutral charge make them especially elusive. Scientists have made a lot of headway in the field and can now detect three flavors, or oscillation states, ...

General Physics Feb 21, 2025

Hypercharge breaking scenarios could explain the baryon asymmetry of the universe

The Standard Model (SM), the main physics framework describing elementary particles and the forces driving them, outlines key patterns in physical interactions referred to as gauge symmetries. One of the symmetries it describes ...

General Physics Feb 21, 2025

Optical fiber link to make CERN more on time than ever

A new optical fiber link between CERN and Paris will provide the Laboratory with an accurate frequency reference, enhancing precision and supporting experiments like ALPHA in their search for matter–antimatter differences.

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