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Worlds between theory and experiment
Once Isaac Newton showed that a single gravitational law plus his rules of dynamics could reproduce the orbits of planets that Johannes Kepler had predicted, explain tides on Earth, and predict that a comet that had passed by once would … Continue reading
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Tagged ATLAS detector, experimental physics, Heinrich Hertz, Higgs boson, Isaac Newton, Jean Perrin, Johannes Kepler, Josiah Willard Gibbs, Large Hadron Collider, leptons, Ludwig Boltzmann, neutrinos, New Physics, particle collider, particle physics, quantum field theory, Standard Model of particle physics, weakly interacting massive particles
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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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Physicists test if they can load antimatter on a truck
Physicists in Europe have reported that it’s possible to transport charged particles on a truck for four hours without disturbing them in any way. This seemingly run-of-the-mill announcement, reported in Nature on May 14, actually contains within its details the … Continue reading
Technical foundation for a muon collider laid at J-PARC
Featured image: All matter around us is made of elementary particles, the building blocks of matter. These particles occur in two basic types called quarks and leptons. Each group consists of six particles, which are related in pairs, or ‘generations’. … Continue reading
Technical foundation for a muon collider laid at J-PARC
A particle collider is a machine that energises two beams of subatomic particles and smashes them head on. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Europe is the world’s largest and most famous particle collider. It accelerates (with the effect of … Continue reading
“Who are we?”
From ‘‘The physics community has never split like this’: row erupts over plans for new Large Hadron Collider’, The Guardian, March 29, 2025: However, if the FCC were given the go-ahead, it could lock up funds for decades and end … Continue reading
“Why has no Indian won a science Nobel this year?”
For all their flaws, the science Nobel Prizes – at the time they’re announced, in the first week of October every year – provide a good opportunity to learn about some obscure part of the scientific endeavour with far-reaching consequences … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred Nobel, attosecond physics, Big Science, in-vitro transcribed mRNA, Large Hadron Collider, LIGO India, Nobel Prize, quantum dots
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New LHC data puts ‘new physics’ lead to bed
One particle in the big zoo of subatomic particles is the B meson. It has a very short lifetime once it’s created. In rare instances it decays to three lighter particles: a kaon, a lepton and an anti-lepton. There are … Continue reading
Science’s humankind shield
“Science benefits all of humanity,” they say. Continue reading