Particle Physicists Are Getting a First Glimpse Into the ‘Zeptoverse’

An extremely rare matter-decay event opens up new possibilities for researching the physical world on scales 100 billion ...
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After 42 Years of Searching, Physicists Find Evidence of a One-in-10-Billion Particle Decay

(bestdesigns/iStock) We may be one gigantically small step closer to solving the most essential Universal questions, ...
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MIT Physics Analysis Facility Demonstrates High-Speed Computing for Future Particle Colliders

Physicists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have deployed SubMIT, an interactive computing facility combining ...

Physicists trap a single antimatter particle for a month

Every normal particle of matter has an antimatter counterpart with equal mass but opposite charge. To build their trap, ...
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For the First Time, Scientists Trapped an Elusive Antimatter Particle—and Contained It for Months. It Could Allow Them to Test an Enduring Physics Theory

The standard model of particle physics works really well, but it can't explain why the universe exists. Something is missing, and this trapped particle might hold a clue to the answer ...
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A detector nearly a mile underground recorded one particle interaction. Scientists still can't explain it

There are sensors around the world deep underground looking for a trace of dark matter. One sensor got a hit, but we still ...
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Physicists step closer to the 'Zeptoverse' after 42-year particle search

Physicists have found evidence of a particle decay so rare that it is expected to occur only around once in every 10 billion ...

After 40 years of searching, physicists find evidence for an ultrarare particle decay

Physicists at CERN report that they've detected evidence of a rare meson particle decay (B⁰→ µ⁺µ⁻) that occurs when the meson ...
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New Report Lays Out Long-Term Vision for Particle Physics, Says U.S. Should Begin Development of the World’s Most Powerful Particle Collider

WASHINGTON — A new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine presents an ambitious and comprehensive long-term vision for the field of particle physics to further our ...
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Something Wild Just Happened at the CERN Particle Accelerator

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Peter Higgs was one of the greats of particle physics. He transformed what we know about the building blocks of the universe

When it was time for the 2013 Nobel prize in physics to be announced, Peter Higgs went fishing. Andy Rain/EPA Images Peter Higgs, who gave his name to the subatomic particle known as the Higgs boson, ...
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Elementary Particle Physics: Progress and Promise

Elementary particle physics reflects the human quest to understand the basic building blocks of nature and the rules that govern the physical world. This quest has led not only to critical scientific ...