Particle physicists might be on the brink of a major breakthrough.
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Laser-cooling enables new measurements that could explain why antimatter is so scarce in our universe.
For 15 years, there has been a mismatch in physics. A particle called the muon wasn’t behaving the way theory predicted it should. A new theory and new experiment might solve this problem.
New particles or forces may exist that aren’t accounted for in the standard model.
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A long-sought crack in the Standard Model of particle physics may have been spotted.
If the finding really is the result of new fundamental particles then it will finally be the breakthrough that physicists have been yearning for for decades.
The theory of tiny particles isn’t complete. But new discoveries are helping scientists expand it.
Plus new research finds a way to speed up the search for dark matter. Listen to episode 4 of The Conversation Weekly.
The compact accelerators are 100 times smaller than traditional ones, and could easily fit inside hospitals and laboratories.
Researchers have found a way to speed up the search for dark matter using technology from quantum computing. By squeezing quantum noise, detectors can now look for axions twice as fast.
It’s all to do with the light from the Sun and a blanket of air wrapped around Earth called the ‘atmosphere’.
New physics may be needed to explain why there’s more matter than antimatter in the universe.
The study of neutrinos produced within the Earth’s interior provides a better understanding of the radioactivity of our planet.
Field theory describes the universe as energy flowing along unending lines. With this perspective, it is possible to define a new fundamental building block of matter.
When scientists created the Higgs particle with protons, they needed the 10km-wide Large Hadron Collider. A muon machine could achieve it with a diameter of just 200 metres.
A recent experiment with atomic nuclei is hard to square with our current understanding of physics.
Heisenberg’s famous Uncertainty Principle is put to the test to see if things really are uncertain in the quantum world.
A new collider at CERN could push particle physics deep into an unexplored microscopic realm.
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Particle physicist, University of Cambridge
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Head of School for Physics, University of Sydney
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Post Doctoral Research Associate, Centre for the Subatomic Structure of Matter, Adelaide University
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Professor of Physics, Head of Department, Lancaster University
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Professor of Physics, Monash University
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Professor, Philosophy of Science, The University of Melbourne
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ARC Research Associate (Centre of Excellence for Particle Physics at Tera Scale), Adelaide University
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Postdoctoral Fellow in Quantum Physics, University of Colorado Boulder
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Professor of Nuclear Physics, Mississippi State University
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Associate Professor of Physics, Durham University
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Senior Lecturer of Particle Physics, Lancaster University
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Doctoral Student, College of Community and Public Affairs, Binghamton University, State University of New York
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Royal Society University Research Fellow and Lecturer in Particle Physics, UCL
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Senior Lecturer in Particle Physics Informatics, Brunel University of London
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Research Professor and Director of the International Institute for Accelerator Applications, University of Huddersfield