With a new measurement imminent, the Courier explores the experimental results and theoretical calculations used to predict ...
An atom is so small that a single drop of water contains more than a billion atoms. Although tiny, atoms are mostly empty space. The simplified model of the atom is that of a cloud of negative ...
“Dreams of a major discovery evaporated in an instant,” recalls Cliff. “Anyone who saw the RK team in the CERN cafeteria that ...
ABSTRACT: The Standard Model of quarks and leptons is a great achievement. However, this model is incomplete: it does not include the observed dark matter, neutrino masses and mixings, the ...
ABSTRACT: The Standard Model of quarks and leptons is a great achievement. However, this model is incomplete: it does not include the observed dark matter, neutrino masses and mixings, the ...
This includes leptons (such as the electron), the quarks that make up protons and neutrons, and gauge bosons, which mediate forces between the other particles.
While it was expected that the other main class of known particles—baryons, which are made up of three quarks—would also be subject to this phenomenon, experiments such as LHCb had only seen ...
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