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Is the Higgs boson doing its job?
At the heart of particle physics lies the Standard Model, a theory that has stood for nearly half a century as the best description of the subatomic realm. It tells us what particles exist, how they interact, and why the … Continue reading
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Tagged ATLAS detector, Benjamin Lee, Chris Quigg, deep learning, deep neural networks, electrons, Higgs boson, Higgs field, Higgs mechanism, Hugh Thacker, Large Hadron Collider, longitudinal polarisation, muons, neutrino oscillation, neutrinos, photons, same-sign WW scattering, Standard Model of particle physics, technicolor theory, transverse polarisation, vector boson scattering, W bosons, weak nuclear force, Z bosons
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Is the universe as we know it stable?
The anthropic principle has been a cornerstone of fundamental physics, being used by some physicists to console themselves about why the universe is the way it is: tightly sandwiched between two dangerous states. If the laws and equations that define … Continue reading
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Tagged anthropic principle, Circular Electron-Positron Collider, Higgs field, quantum tunnelling, scalar potential, top quark
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Why you should care about the mass of the top quark
In a paper published in Physical Review Letters on July 17, 2014, a team of American researchers reported the most precisely measured value yet of the mass of the top quark, the heaviest fundamental particle. Its mass is so high that … Continue reading
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Tagged D0 experiment, Higgs boson, Higgs field, Large Hadron Collider, particle physics, Stephen Hawking, top quark, Yukawa coupling
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Where does the Higgs boson come from?
When the Chelyabinsk meteor – dubbed Chebarkul – entered Earth’s atmosphere at around 17 km/s, it started to heat up due to friction. After a point, cracks already present on the chunk of rock weighing 9,000-tonnes became licensed to widen and eventually … Continue reading
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Tagged electroweak interactions, Higgs boson, Higgs field, Nambu-Goldstone bosons, Standard Model
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What’s allowed and disallowed in the name of SUSY
The International Conference on High Energy Physics (ICHEP) is due to begin on July 7 in Melbourne. This is the 26th episode of the most prestigious scientific conference on particle physics. In keeping with its stature, scientists from the ATLAS … Continue reading
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Tagged bosinos, dark matter, electroweak symmetry breaking, Hideki Yukawa, hierarchy problem, Higgs field, ICHEP, Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model, Quantum mechanics, sfermions, superpartner, supersymmetry, Yukawa coupling
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