Tag: muons
Tech

Fermilab’s latest muon measurements hint at cracks in the Standard Model

Enlarge / The Muon g-2 particle storage ring, now housed at Fermilab. (credit: Cindy Arnold/Fermilab) The Muon g-2 experiment (pronounced “gee minus two”) is designed to look for tantalizing hints of physics beyond the Standard Model of particle physics. It does this by measuring the magnetic field (aka the magnetic moment) generated by a subatomic […]

Posted on Author admin Comments Off on Fermilab’s latest muon measurements hint at cracks in the Standard Model
Tech

Unstable helium adds a limit on the ongoing saga of the proton’s size

Enlarge / The small particle accelerator in Switzerland where, surrounded by farms, the work took place. (credit: Paul Scherrer Institut) Physicists, who dedicate their lives to studying the topic, don’t actually seem to like physics very much, since they’re always hoping it’s broken. But we’ll have to forgive them; finding out that a bit of […]

Posted on Author admin Comments Off on Unstable helium adds a limit on the ongoing saga of the proton’s size