Physicists know that their elegant theoretical description of forces and particles – the Standard Model – must be incomplete, ...
In 1930, a young physicist named Carl D. Anderson was tasked by his mentor with measuring the energies of cosmic rays—particles arriving at high speed from outer space. Anderson built an improved ...
Recent findings from research we have been carrying out at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at Cern in Geneva suggest that we might be closing in on signs of undiscovered physics. If confirmed, these ...
Tiny grains of dust floating inside a glowing plasma should, according to decades of theory, push and pull on each other in ...
A tiny discrepancy in particle physics has loomed for decades as an exciting possible crack in one of science’s most ...
A neglected force produced by neutrinos and other particles helps atomic physics measurements align with predictions of the standard model.
Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...
It’s often said in science that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Recent measurements of the mass of the elementary particle known as the W boson provide a useful case study as to ...
While the result strengthens confidence in the Standard Model to 11 decimal places, it also narrows the space where new physics could be hiding. Some data-driven approaches still disagree with lattice ...
Noncommutative geometry offers a radical reformulation of traditional geometrical concepts by replacing the classical notion of a manifold with a noncommutative algebra of coordinates. This approach ...
The standard model of particle physics is often illustrated as a simple grid showing the 17 basic particles (shown above). But an alternative way of visualising it reveals the complex rules that ...
Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics (MPQ), Garching, in collaboration with Prof. Dr. Randolf Pohl from the Institute for Physics at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU), ...