A research team led by Harvard University physicists has measured the magnetic moment of single particles of matter and antimatter with unprecedented precision. As described in a March 25 paper in Physical Review Letters, the team — led by Gerald Gabrielse, the George Vasmer Leverett Professor of Physics, and including postdoctoral fellows Stephan Ettenauer and [...]

After further review of the data from July’s particle discovery at the Large Hadron Collider, the new results point to the new particle having the spin-parity of a Higgs boson as in the Standard Model. Geneva, 14 March 2013. At the Moriond Conference today, the ATLAS and CMS collaborations at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) [...]

University of Oslo’s leading theorist in astroparticle physics, Are Raklev, has launched a model that explains what dark matter may consist of and how one can discover the invisible particles experimentally. Astrophysicists have known for the last 80 years that most of the universe consists of an unknown, dark matter. The solution to the mystery [...]

The latest data presented by scientists on Higgs boson shows that separate measurements of its properties are showing two slightly different masses. The scientists at the LHC, CERN, presented their latest data with this duality problem. Since last July, when evidence indicating that the Higgs boson had been discovered was revealed, scientists have been probing [...]

As most of the world is still dealing with the worst economic crisis in decades, Japan is currently being considered as the potential host for the International Linear Collider (ILC), a multi-billion-dollar machine that will smash atoms at higher and higher energy levels. Members of the ILC team will hand over the finalized design of [...]

New research showing that black holes have properties that resemble the dynamics of both solids and liquids may help scientists better understand black holes and the physical properties of neutron stars. Black holes are surrounded by many mysteries, but now researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute, among others, have come up with new groundbreaking theories [...]

As the Large Hadron Collider has been unable to find any of the particles suggested by supersymmetry, theoretical particle physicists are trying to change their worldview, away from supersymmetry to theories that could explain the results. So far, there have been no hints beyond the Standard Model of Particle Physics from the LHC. A recent [...]

A team of scientists working at the Large Hadron Collider found that in a sample of 2 million lead-proton collisions, some pairs of particles flew away from each other with their respective directions correlated, suggesting that the collisions may have produced a new type of matter known as color-glass condensate. Collisions between protons and lead [...]

A new tabletop experiment using a single photon was proposed to show whether space-time is made up of indivisible units. Space isn’t smooth, and physicists think that on the quantum scale, it is composed of indivisible subunits, like the dots of a pointillist drawing. This pixelated landscape is thought to be populated by black holes, [...]

While Sherlock Holmes might have stated that the absence of any evidence is evidence itself, theoretical physicists haven’t yet been able to find any inkling to confirm supersymmetry (SUSY), a theory which predicts that every Standard-Model particle has a heavier partner. The reason why SUSY is so important is because it would be a step [...]

In July, physicists at the Large Hadron Collider announced the discovery of a new particle that looked like the Higgs boson. This particle was never perfect; but based on the available data, it looked exactly what the Standard Model of Particle Physics predicted the Higgs would look like. This week, physicists working at the LHC [...]

Results from a newly published study may help scientists deliberately induce the high levels of damage needed to study extreme states of matter. Menlo Park, California — Researchers using the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have found a way to strip most of the [...]