Scientists spent decades chasing signs of a mysterious new force hidden inside the muon, one of nature’s strangest particles.

Physicists searching for a better understanding of quantum gravity stumbled upon something unexpected: the defining ...

The eta prime meson held together without one of the fundamental forces of the universe.

For nearly a century, every particle in the quantum world has fallen into one of two camps. Bosons, like photons, happily ...

A link between particle physics and gravity equations, called the double copy, applies to Hawking radiation, creating a new ...

Physicists at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider have uncovered new hints that certain particle decays may not behave as the ...

Physicists may have uncovered a surprising new clue that string theory—the idea that the universe is built from unimaginably tiny vibrating strings—could be more than just a mathematical fantasy.

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The magnum opus of particle physics is far from complete, requiring physicists to devise many alternatives—some weirder than others. Reading time 5 minutes For all practical purposes, the Standard ...

A committee-supported project or activity that has been completed and for which output dissemination has begun. Its committee has been disbanded and closeout procedures are underway. Elementary ...