Tag Archives: Standard Model of particle physics
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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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
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Tagged B mesons, electrons, flavour-changing neutral current, Kaons, Large Hadron Collider, lepton-flavour universality, LHCb, muons, New Physics, Standard Model of particle physics
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US experiments find hint of a break in the laws of physics
At 9 pm India time on April 7, physicists at an American research facility delivered a shot in the arm to efforts to find flaws in a powerful theory that explains how the building blocks of the universe work. Physicists … Continue reading
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Tagged anomalous magnetic dipole moment, dark energy, dark matter, Fermilab Muon g-2, g-2 anomaly, Higgs boson, Large Hadron Collider, LHCb, muon dipole moment, Muon g-2, neutrino masses, New Physics, particle physics, physics beyond the standard model, Standard Model, Standard Model of particle physics, supersymmetry
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The weekly linklist – July 25, 2020
I’ve decided to publish this linklist via Substack. Next weekend onwards, it will only be available on https://linklist.substack.com. And this is why the list exists and what kind of articles you can find in it. Want to buy a parrot? … Continue reading
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Tagged augury, black holes, cyptomining, electromagnetic pulses, entropy, F-commerce, Facebook, Hope Mars mission, India water crisis, neutrinos, North Kosovo, nuclear explosion, reading, social network, Standard Model of particle physics, UAE
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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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Prospects for suspected new fundamental particle improve marginally
Although the data’s statistical significance isn’t as good as it would have to be for there to be a new ‘champagne bottle boson’ moment, it’s encouraging that the data itself isn’t vanishing. Continue reading
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Tagged ATLAS detector, CMS detector, digamma resonance, diphoton events, Higgs boson, Large Hadron Collider, Standard Model of particle physics, statistical significance
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Physicists could have to wait 66,000 yottayears to see an electron decay
An electron’s lifetime is predicted by prevalent theory that physicists would like to see disproved Continue reading
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Tagged Borexino neutrino experiment, DAΦNE Exotic Atom Research, electrons, Hindu cosmology, Pauli's exclusion principle, Standard Model of particle physics
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New Higgs results show signs of SUSY
Two years ago, physicists working on the Large Hadron Collider first announced the discovery of a Higgs boson-like particle, setting the high-energy physics community atwitter. And it was only a couple weeks ago that physicists also announced that the particle was … Continue reading
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Tagged Higgs boson, high-energy physics, International Conference on High Energy Physics, Large Hadron Collider, Standard Model of particle physics, supersymmetry, W bosons
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