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‘Weak charge’ measurement holds up SM prediction
Various dark matter detectors around the world, massive particle accelerators and colliders, powerful telescopes on the ground and in space all have their distinct agendas but ultimately what unites them is humankind’s quest to understand what the hell this universe … Continue reading
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Tagged elastic scattering, electrons, gluons, parity violation, protons, quarks, Qweak experiment, spin polarisation, Standard Model of particle physics, weak charge, weak nuclear force
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Chromodynamics: Gluons are just gonzo
One of the more fascinating bits of high-energy physics is the branch of physics called quantum chromodynamics (QCD). Don’t let the big name throw you off: it deals with a bunch of elementary particles that have a property called colour … Continue reading
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Tagged Electromagnetism, gluons, Hunter S. Thompson, Large Hadron Collider, particle physics, quantum chromodynamics, quarks, Richard Feynman, strong nuclear force
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Assuming this universe…
Accomplished physicists I have met or spoken with in the last four months professed little agreement over which parts of physics were set-in-stone and which parts simply largely-corroborated hypotheses. Here are some of them, with a short description of the … Continue reading
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Tagged bosons, compactification of extra dimensions, gluons, Millennium Prize, non-perturbative string theory, quantum chromodynamics, quantum field theory, Yang-Mills theory
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