The Standard Model of particle physics—the absolutely amazing theory of almost everything
The Standard Model. What dull name for the most accurate scientific theory known to human beings.
The Standard Model. What dull name for the most accurate scientific theory known to human beings.
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May 23, 2018
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UTA researchers are leading an international team developing a new device that could enable physicists to take the next step toward a greater understanding of the neutrino, a subatomic particle that may offer an answer to ...
General Physics
Mar 27, 2018
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Scientists at Rutgers University–New Brunswick and elsewhere are at a crossroads in their 50-year quest to go beyond the Standard Model in physics.
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Mar 23, 2018
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In a paper published today in the European Physical Journal C, the ATLAS Collaboration reports the first high-precision measurement at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) of the mass of the W boson. This is one of two elementary ...
General Physics
Feb 12, 2018
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New particles produced in the LHC's high-energy proton-proton collisions don't hang around for long. A Higgs boson exists for less than a thousandth of a billionth of a billionth of a second before decaying into lighter particles, ...
General Physics
Jan 18, 2018
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(Phys.org)—Researchers have introduced a new computing problem and shown that it would be extremely difficult, if not impossible, for a classical computer to solve, but in theory it could be efficiently solved using quantum ...
Most of the universe is dark, with dark matter and dark energy comprising more than 95 percent of its mass-energy. Yet we know little about dark matter and energy. To find answers, scientists run huge high-energy physics ...
General Physics
Oct 31, 2017
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In an abandoned gold mine close to Deadwood, South Dakota, construction has started on what is arguably the world's largest science experiment. I'm part of an international team of around 1,000 scientists assembled to design ...
General Physics
Sep 26, 2017
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Since resuming operation for Run 2, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has been producing about 20,000 Higgs bosons per day in its 13 TeV proton–proton collisions. At the end of 2015, the data collected by the ATLAS and CMS ...
General Physics
Jul 26, 2017
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Although the discovery of the Higgs boson by the ATLAS and CMS Collaborations in 2012 completed the Standard Model, many mysteries remain unexplained. For instance, why is the mass of the Higgs boson so much lighter than ...
General Physics
Jul 17, 2017
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