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Illustration in which the particles of the Standard Model are arranged as sections of a circle, but the W boson is too big and doesn’t fit.]
particle physics

Newly Measured Particle Seems Heavy Enough to Break Known Physics

By Charlie Wood
April 7, 2022
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A new analysis of W bosons suggests these particles are significantly heavier than predicted by the Standard Model of particle physics.

particle physics

A Deepening Crisis Forces Physicists to Rethink Structure of Nature’s Laws

By Natalie Wolchover
March 1, 2022
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For three decades, researchers hunted in vain for new elementary particles that would have explained why nature looks the way it does. As physicists confront that failure, they’re reexamining a longstanding assumption: that big stuff consists of smaller stuff.

particle physics

The Mysterious Forces Inside the Nucleus Grow a Little Less Strange

By Charlie Wood
February 14, 2022
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The strong force holds protons and neutrons together, but the theory behind it is largely inscrutable. Two new approaches show how it works.

Illustration of labyrinth with a large sphere representing the neutrino at center. People with flashlights explore the paths.
particle physics

Is the Great Neutrino Puzzle Pointing to Multiple Missing Particles?

By Thomas Lewton
October 28, 2021
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Years of conflicting neutrino measurements have led physicists to propose a “dark sector” of invisible particles — one that could simultaneously explain dark matter, the puzzling expansion of the universe, and other mysteries.

quantum gravity

One Lab’s Quest to Build Space-Time Out of Quantum Particles

By Adam Becker
September 7, 2021
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For over two decades, physicists have pondered how the fabric of space-time may emerge from some kind of quantum entanglement. In Monika Schleier-Smith’s lab at Stanford University, the thought experiment is becoming real.

Quantized Columns

How Steven Weinberg Transformed Physics and Physicists

By Nima Arkani-Hamed
August 11, 2021
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When Steven Weinberg died last month, the world lost one of its most profound thinkers.

Math Meets QFT

A Video Tour of the Standard Model

By Kevin Hartnett
July 16, 2021
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The Standard Model is a sweeping equation that has correctly predicted the results of virtually every experiment ever conducted, as Quanta explores in a new video.

A sphere swirling with many small orbs around it.
particle physics

‘Last Hope’ Experiment Finds Evidence for Unknown Particles

By Natalie Wolchover
April 7, 2021
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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.

Q&A

A Prodigy Who Cracked Open the Cosmos

By Claudia Dreifus
January 12, 2021
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Frank Wilczek has been at the forefront of theoretical physics for the past 50 years. He talks about winning the Nobel Prize for work he did as a student, his solution to the dark matter problem, and the God of a scientist.


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