Tag: Particle
Scientists Just Tore Up a Major Particle Physics Theory
Scientists announced on Wednesday that they have found no evidence for the hypothetical “sterile neutrino,” an extra version of the ghostly neutrino particles...
Scientists Create 3.3 Trillion Degree Particle Soup to Mimic the Universe...
November 15, 20252 min readScientists Measure the Temperature of the Universe Just after the Big BangQuark-gluon plasma, a bizarre state of matter that...
What’s the Smallest Particle in the Universe?
September 3, 20254 min readWhat’s the Smallest Particle in the Universe?The answer to this supposedly simple particle physics question isn’t so simpleBy Gayoung...
Quantum Computers Simulate Particle ‘String Breaking’ in a Physics Breakthrough
Quantum Computers Simulate Particle 'String Breaking' in a Physics BreakthroughPhysicists are a step closer to using quantum computers for simulations that are beyond...
Measuring Gluons and Quarks at the Brookhaven Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider,...
Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, this is Rachel Feltman. Today we’re taking you on another one of our Friday Fascination field...
New Plan for Particle Physics Megaproject Leaves out Funding Details
New Plan for Particle Physics Megaproject Leaves out Funding DetailsA long-awaiting report from CERN explores the feasibility of building a supersized successor to...
Who Will Build the Next Giant Particle Collider?
On the Swiss–French border, at the headquarters of the European laboratory CERN, a battle is under way for the future of particle physics....
First Observation of One-in-10-Billion Particle Decay Hints at Hidden Physics
October 1, 20245 min readA One-in-10-Billion Particle Decay Hints at Hidden PhysicsPhysicists have detected a long-sought particle process that may suggest new forces...
