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A New Experiment Has Dashed Hopes of the Undiscovered ‘Sterile Neutrinos’

Yvonne Wong and Michael Schmidt 01/11/2021

Attempts to explain a neutrino anomaly spotted in 1995...

Ernest Rutherford, proton, Large Hadron Collider, particle physics, quark model, Murray Gell-Mann, George Zweig, quantum chromodynamics, strong nuclear force, string theory, SLAC, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, glasma, quark gluon plasma, gluon, parton distribution functions, colour glass condensate, spin crisis,

Nuclear Goes Retro – With a Much Greener Outlook

M. Mitchell Waldrop, Knowable Magazine 01/08/2019

Returning to designs abandoned in the 1970s, start-ups are...

AN Mitra, baryons, Eightfold Way, George Zweig, gluons, hadrons, Hideki Yukawa, Lambda particles, Large Hadron Collider, mesons, Murray Gell-Mann, neutrinos, neutrons, particle physics, protons, quarks, Richard Dalitz, Richard Feynman, Santa Fe Institute, see-saw mechanism, Shoichi Sakata, SLAC, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, strong interactions, strong nuclear force, SU(3) symmetry, theoretical physics, Yuval Ne’eman,

The Strangeness of Murray Gell-Mann

Madhusudhan Raman 31/05/2019

In the 1940s and 1950s, experimentalists dredged up the...

Murray Gell-Mann, theoretical physics, particle physics, Richard Feynman, Richard Dalitz, SU(3) symmetry, quarks, gluons, Large Hadron Collider, Hideki Yukawa, neutrinos, see-saw mechanism, Shoichi Sakata, Yuval Ne'eman, George Zweig, Eightfold Way, protons, neutrons, Lambda particles, mesons, baryons, hadrons, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, SLAC, strong interactions, strong nuclear force, Santa Fe Institute, AN Mitra,

How Murray Gell-Mann Brought Clarity to a New Force of Nature

G. Rajasekaran 30/05/2019

Though his most well-known contribution is the proposal that...

Ernest Rutherford, proton, Large Hadron Collider, particle physics, quark model, Murray Gell-Mann, George Zweig, quantum chromodynamics, strong nuclear force, string theory, SLAC, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, glasma, quark gluon plasma, gluon, parton distribution functions, colour glass condensate, spin crisis,

A Century of the Proton

Vasudevan Mukunth 23/05/2019

Only 100 years after the proton was first sussed...

antimatter, Big Bang, LHCb, Large Hadron Collider, CERN, CP symmetry, CP symmetry violation, quarks, charm quark, anti-quark, D0 mesons, kaons, B mesons, charge parity, weak nuclear force, strong nuclear force, Standard Model of particle physics, particle physics, new physics, CEPC,

Spotted: New Clue to Uncover Why Universe Is Made of Matter, Not Antimatter

Vasudevan Mukunth 22/03/2019

The universe is made entirely of matter today even...

Hunter S. Thompson, pioneer of gonzo journalism, in May 1989. Credit: Rs79/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0

Meet the Hunter S. Thompson of Elementary Particles

Vasudevan Mukunth 20/09/2017

Particles called gluons are responsible for mediating the strong...