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symmetry magazine4 天
Elusive romance of top-quark pairs observed at the LHC
The CMS and ATLAS experiments at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider have observed an unforeseen feature in the behaviour of top ...
Symmetry Magazine9 年
The Standard Model of Particle Physics | symmetry magazine
The Standard Model is a kind of periodic table of the elements for particle physics. But instead of listing the chemical elements, it lists the fundamental particles that make up the atoms that make ...
Symmetry Magazine9 年
The neutrino turns 60 - symmetry magazine
Project Poltergeist led to the discovery of the ghostly particle. Sixty years later, scientists are confronted with more neutrino mysteries than ever before.
Symmetry Magazine5 年
Vera Rubin, giant of astronomy | symmetry magazine
The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, a flagship astronomy and astrophysics project currently under construction on a mountaintop in Chile, will be named for astronomer Vera Rubin, a key figure in the ...
Symmetry Magazine4 年
The status of supersymmetry | symmetry magazine
Once the most popular framework for physics beyond the Standard Model, supersymmetry is facing a reckoning—but many researchers are not giving up on it yet.
Symmetry Magazine12 年
The march of the penguin diagrams - symmetry magazine
Why penguins? The then-student who made the penguin bet with Ellis was Melissa Franklin, now the chair of the Harvard University Department of Physics. Her inspiration was a joke that had nothing to ...
Symmetry Magazine1 年
‘This is our Muon Shot’ - symmetry magazine
The best of both worlds Collider experiments crash beams of particles, pumped full of energy, into one another or into a target. In the crash, all of that energy can briefly convert into new particles ...
Symmetry Magazine13 年
The brain behind TV's The Big Bang Theory - symmetry magazine
For those who live, breathe and laugh physics, one show entangles them all: The Big Bang Theory. To make the show's jokes timely and accurate, while sprinkling the sets with authentic scientific plots ...
Symmetry Magazine4月
Why do neutrinos rarely interact? | symmetry magazine
Neutrinos are notoriously aloof, but it’s not entirely their fault. Neutrinos are some of the most abundant particles in the universe, and they are everywhere. Every second, more than 6 trillion ...
Symmetry Magazine6 年
Five mysteries the Standard Model can’t explain - symmetry magazine
Our best model of particle physics explains only about 5 percent of the universe. The Standard Model is a thing of beauty. It is the most rigorous theory of particle physics, incredibly precise and ...
Symmetry Magazine15 年
Antimatter from bananas - symmetry magazine
The average banana produces a particle of antimatter roughly once every 75 minutes. US-based scientists and students working on research and experiments with the Large Hadron Collider contribute to a ...