LHC creates matter from light
Scientists on an experiment at the Large Hadron Collider see massive W particles emerging from collisions with electromagnetic fields. How can this happen?
Scientists on an experiment at the Large Hadron Collider see massive W particles emerging from collisions with electromagnetic fields. How can this happen?
Neutrinos don’t seem to get their mass in the same way as other particles in the Standard Model.
Until recently, scientists had never detected black holes in the “mass gap”—now, particle physicists are exploring ideas beyond the Standard Model that could explain them.
Nearly 75 years after the puzzling first detection of the kaon, scientists are still looking to the particle for hints of physics beyond their current understanding.
Scientists know the Higgs boson interacts with extremely massive particles. Now, they’re starting to study how it interacts with lighter particles as well.
Extremely massive fundamental particles could exist, but they would seriously mess with our understanding of quantum mechanics.
No one knows for sure what dark matter is. But we know we need something to explain what we see in the universe, and we’ve crossed a few ideas off of our list.
Experimentalists and theorists search for Higgs bosons escaping as dark matter.
Even world-famous theorist Juan Maldacena wasn’t sure at first whether he should pursue a PhD in physics.
Although scientists have yet to find the spooky stuff, they aren’t completely in the dark.
