Physicists Discover Elusive New Particle Through Tabletop Experiment
Materials that contain the axial Higgs mode could serve as quantum sensors to evaluate other quantum systems and help answer persistent questions in particle physics….
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Antiprotons in Superfluid: Hybrid Antimatter-Matter Atom Behaves in Unexpected Way
A team of scientists at CERN led by MPQ physicist Masaki Hori discovered that a hybrid antimatter-matter atom behaves in an unexpected way when immersed…
A Chilling Feat: Superconducting X-Ray Laser Reaches Operating Temperature Colder Than Outer Space
The new facility, LCLS-II, will soon sharpen our view of how nature works on ultrasmall, ultrafast scales, impacting everything from quantum devices to clean energy….
41-Million-Pixel Vertex Locator May Unlock Some of the Most Enduring Mysteries of the Universe
The device hopes to answer the ultimate existential questions. The final piece of an all-new detector has completed the first leg of its journey toward…
The Standard Model of Particle Physics May Be Broken – A Physicist at the Large Hadron Collider Explains
As a physicist working at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, one of the questions I am most frequently asked is “When are you…
Quantum Future: Developing the Next Generation of Quantum Algorithms and Materials
Simulating a Quantum Future Quantum computers are anticipated to revolutionize the way researchers address complex computing problems. These computers are being developed to address major…
New and Surprising Duality Discovered in Theoretical Particle Physics
A new and surprising duality has been found in theoretical particle physics. The duality exists between two types of scattering processes that can occur in…
Experiments Show Source of the Aurora Borealis: Electrons Surfing on Alfvén Waves
The Science New experiments have revealed the source of the aurora borealis. Alfvén waves accelerating electrons under conditions similar to those seen in the Earth’s…
An Experiment That Could Confirm the Fifth State of Matter in the Universe – And Change Physics As We Know It
New Experiment Could Confirm the Fifth Element An experiment that could confirm the fifth state of matter in the universe — and change physics as…
Nearly Pure Argon Left Undisturbed Since Earth’s Formation May Soon Whisper Secrets About Universe’s Dark Matter
University of Houston Researchers to Create Facility for Mining Exceptionally Pure Argon from Colorado Site A deposit of virtually pure argon that has been left…
A Decade of Science and Trillions of Collisions Show the W Boson Is More Massive Than Expected – A Physicist Explains What It Means
“You can do it quickly, you can do it cheaply, or you can do it right. We did it right.” These were some of David…
Large Hadron Collider Restarts After 3 Years of Upgrades: Particle Collisions at World-Record Energy Levels
Beams of protons are again circulating around the collider’s 27-kilometer ring, marking the end of a multiple-year hiatus for upgrade work. In 2022, CERN is…
Large Hadron Collider Reveals Secret of Antimatter Creation in Cosmic Collisions
Recently at the Quark Matter conference and before that at the Rencontres de Moriond conference, the Large Hadron Collider beauty (LHCb) collaboration presented an analysis of…
Large Hadron Collider Measures Mass of the Top Quark With Unparalleled Accuracy
Precise knowledge of the top-quark mass is of paramount importance to understanding our world at the smallest scale. The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) collaboration at…
Particle Physics Breakthrough: Scientists Report First-of-Its-Kind Neutrino Measurement
For the first time, physicists extracted the detailed “energy-dependent neutrino-argon interaction cross section,” a key value for studying how neutrinos change their flavor Physicists studying…
Physicists Are Closing In on the Next Breakthrough in Particle Physics – And the Search for Our Own Origins
CUORE Team Places New Limits on the Bizarre Behavior of Neutrinos Physicists are closing in on the true nature of the neutrino — and might…
Particle Physics Shock: Most Precise Ever Measurement of W Boson Mass Differs From Standard Model Prediction
Most precise ever measurement of W boson mass shows tension with the Standard Model. After 10 years of careful analysis and scrutiny, scientists of the…
Engineering the Quantum States in Solid Materials Using Light
A POSTECH research team led by Professor Gil-Ho Lee and Gil Young Cho (Department of Physics) has developed a platform that can control the properties…