The deconstructed Standard Model equation - symmetry magazine
Section 2. Almost half of this equation is dedicated to explaining interactions between bosons, particularly W and Z bosons. Bosons are force-carrying particles, and there are four species of …
How do neutrinos get their mass? | symmetry magazine
An alternative to the Higgs. The most popular theory proposes a completely new mass mechanism at play that is not within the Standard Model, one which introduces an entirely new …
New CERN course teaches particle physics basics online
Dec 3, 2024 · Jeff Wiener manages a program that annually brings 1,000 teachers to CERN, the European laboratory for particle physics, training them to teach particle physics in their …
Explain it in 60 Seconds: Quantum entanglement
Sep 24, 2024 · Quantum entanglement links subatomic particles in a way that appears to defy logic. When scientists measure one of a pair of entangled particles, the other seems to …
Inside the search for dark matter | symmetry magazine
Dec 17, 2024 · Over a decade ago, dark-matter experts Daniel Akerib and Thomas Shutt joined the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, continuing their mission to …
symmetry magazine | dimensions of particle physics
A word with CERN’s next Director-General. Mark Thomson is professor of experimental particle physics at the University of Cambridge and was executive chair of the UK’s Science and …
Explain it in 60 seconds: W boson | symmetry magazine
Sep 10, 2024 · Visible matter is made from only a handful of particles, but many more are behind the scenes, affecting what those matter particles do. The W boson, predicted in the 1960s and …
From sea to scientific sea | symmetry magazine
Jul 28, 2016 · KATRIN’s odyssey. People went to great lengths, traveling almost 9000 kilometers over more than 60 days, to deliver an essential, 200-ton component of the KATRIN neutrino …
Plasma acceleration - symmetry magazine
Sep 10, 2024 · Plasma acceleration could be the wave of the future. It is a way to accelerate particles more efficiently than current techniques that use radiofrequency acceleration.
What is a photon? - symmetry magazine
From wave, to particle, to boson. People have investigated the nature of light since ancient times, with early insights coming from philosophers and scholars in Egypt, Mesopotamia, India and …