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Particle physics is the study of the elementary building blocks of matter and radiation and their interaction. The fundamental particles are summarised by the standard model. 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.
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Developments of a centimeter-level precise muometric wireless navigation system (MuWNS-V) and its first demonstration using directional information from tracking detectors
- Dezso Varga
- Hiroyuki K. M. Tanaka
Search for decoherence from quantum gravity with atmospheric neutrinos
Interactions of atmospheric neutrinos with quantum-gravity-induced fluctuations of the metric of spacetime would lead to decoherence. The IceCube Collaboration constrains such interactions with atmospheric neutrinos.
- M. Ackermann
- M. Zimmerman
Imaging of 3 bright terrestrial gamma-ray flashes by the atmosphere-space interactions monitor and their parent thunderstorms
- Oscar A. van der Velde
- Javier Navarro-González
- Nikolai Østgaard
Anomalies in particle physics and their implications for physics beyond the standard model
The standard model of particle physics describes the fundamental constituents of matter and their interactions. We review the status of experimental hints for new physics, which, if confirmed, would require the extension of the standard model with new particles and new interactions.
- Andreas Crivellin
- Bruce Mellado
Novel epoxy-bPBD-BisMSB composite plastic scintillator for alpha, beta and gamma radiation detection
- R. M. Sahani
- Arun Pandya
High-precision regressors for particle physics
- Fady Bishara
- Jennifer Dy
News and Comment
A supercollider glimpses a gathering of three particles never seen together before
Data from billions of proton collisions reveal that subatomic particles called W + and W − bosons keep company with a photon.
China’s giant underground neutrino lab prepares to probe cosmic mysteries
Due to come online this year, the JUNO facility will help to determine which type of neutrino has the highest mass — one of the biggest mysteries in physics.
- Gemma Conroy
How heavy is a neutrino? Race to weigh mysterious particle heats up
Physicists discuss experiments that could improve laboratory measurements of the super-light particle’s mass.
- Davide Castelvecchi
CERN’s supercollider plan: $17-billion ‘Higgs factory’ would dwarf LHC
A feasibility study on the Future Circular Collider identifies where and how the machine could be built — but its construction is far from a done deal.
- Elizabeth Gibney
Entanglement between a pair of top quarks
The ATLAS Collaboration at CERN used data from 13 TeV proton–proton collisions at the Large Hadron Collider to observe for the first time entanglement between a pair of top quarks.
- Iulia Georgescu
No sign of sterile neutrinos but anomalies remain
No sign of sterile neutrinos was found in the latest, and most extensive, analysis done on data taken by the STEREO experiment and yet, the case is not closed.
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