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04/07/21
Quanta

‘Last hope’ experiment finds evidence for unknown particles

Today’s long-anticipated announcement by Fermilab’s Muon g-2 team appears to solidify a tantalizing conflict between nature and theory. But a separate calculation, published at the same time, has clouded the picture.

04/07/21
The New York Times

Finding from particle research could break known laws of physics

It's not the next Higgs boson—yet. But the best explanation, physicists say, involves forms of matter and energy not currently known to science.

04/07/21

First results from Fermilab’s Muon g-2 experiment strengthen evidence of new physics

The new measurement from the Muon g-2 experiment at Fermilab strongly agrees with the value found at Brookhaven and diverges from theory with the most precise measurement to date.

03/31/21
Nature

Antimatter cooled by laser light

A laser beam has been used to slow down antihydrogen atoms, the simplest atoms made of pure antimatter.

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From the atmosphere to the underground

04/13/21
By Erin Lorraine Broberg

Read the travelogue of a xenon atom as it journeys from the air we breathe to a dark-matter detector a mile underground.

Interior of a collider tunnel
04/06/21

The next supercollider

What does it take to envision and build a seemingly impossible particle accelerator?

Illustration of a magnifying glass inspecting a fingerprint
03/30/21

The mystery of the muon’s magnetism

A super-precise experiment at Fermilab is carefully analyzing every detail of the muon’s magnetic moment.

Illustration: Identical people in two different t-shirts “collect” data
03/29/21

The data wranglers

A degree in particle physics or astrophysics can lead to a career in data science.

Illustration of cats representing correlated information inside and outside of a black hole
03/23/21

Has the black hole information paradox evaporated?

Researchers make progress on a vexing problem about how black holes evolve.

Illustration of two people prognosticating in front of the Standard Model
03/16/21

Six fabulous facts about the Standard Model

Learn about the Standard Model of particle physics and how physicists use it to predict the (subatomic) future.

Steve Tammes stands in front of Wilson Hall
03/09/21

A Fermilab family legacy

Steve Tammes’ love of physics began with his grandfather’s tales about Fermilab.

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03/02/21

How English became the language of physics

Today, more than 90% of the indexed articles in the natural sciences are published in English. That wasn’t always the case.

Particle collision visualization
02/25/21

Searching for Higgs boson twins

Higgs-boson pairs could help scientists understand the stability of our universe. The trick is finding them.

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