Particle Physics

Milestone Achieved in Unraveling the Universe’s Fundamental Forces at the Large Hadron Collider

Milestone Achieved in Unraveling the Universe’s Fundamental Forces at the Large Hadron Collider

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

Building on their extensive involvement at CERN, the University of Rochester team recently achieved “incredibly precise” measures of the electroweak mixing angle, ...

New Spin-Spin-Velocity Experiments Could Rewrite Physics Textbooks

New Spin-Spin-Velocity Experiments Could Rewrite Physics Textbooks

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

Chinese researchers have used solid-state spin quantum sensors to investigate new velocity-related interactions between electron spins, providing valuable data and new insights ...

Large Hadron Collider Achieves Groundbreaking Measurement in Particle Physics

Large Hadron Collider Achieves Groundbreaking Measurement in Particle Physics

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

The CMS collaboration’s measurement of the electroweak mixing angle showcased unprecedented precision, affirming the Standard Model and setting the stage for future ...

Breaking Light Speed: The Quantum Tunneling Enigma

Breaking Light Speed: The Quantum Tunneling Enigma

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

Quantum tunneling allows particles to bypass energy barriers. A new method has been proposed to measure the time it takes for particles ...

Einstein Meets Quantum Mechanics in Antarctic Ice

Einstein Meets Quantum Mechanics in Antarctic Ice

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

IceCube lab under the stars in Antarctica. Credit: Martin Wolf, IceCube/NSF Research at the South Pole studied the mysterious quantum structure of ...

the particles made entirely of force

the particles made entirely of force

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

Illustration of particle collision. Credit: AI-generated. The Standard Model of particle physics is the cornerstone theory that elegantly encapsulates our understanding of ...

New Particle? AI Detected Anomaly May Uncover Novel Physics Beyond the Standard Model

New Particle? AI Detected Anomaly May Uncover Novel Physics Beyond the Standard Model

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

Argonne National Laboratory scientists have used anomaly detection in the ATLAS collaboration to search for new particles, identifying a promising anomaly that ...

Exploring the “Cosmic Glitch” in Gravity

Exploring the “Cosmic Glitch” in Gravity

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

Researchers propose a modification to Einstein’s theory of general relativity, suggesting a “cosmic glitch” that makes gravity slightly weaker across vast cosmic ...

Turning Invisible Dark Matter Into Visible Light

Turning Invisible Dark Matter Into Visible Light

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

Galaxy cluster, left, with ring of dark matter visible, right. Credit: NASA, ESA, M. J. Jee and H. Ford (Johns Hopkins University) ...

Neutrinos Challenge Everything We Know About Physics

Neutrinos Challenge Everything We Know About Physics

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

In the 1930s, the concept of neutrinos emerged to explain missing energy and momentum in nuclear beta decay, leading to their eventual ...