The hypothetical inflaton is almost certainly not the particle behind the universe’s rapid expansion soon after the Big Bang. This is according to an international collaboration of physicists working at […]
Tag: particle physics
From generation to generation
by Robert Kowalewski from Nature Physics 11, 705–706 (2015) doi:10.1038/nphys3464 A new measurement from the LHCb experiment at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider impinges on a puzzle that has been troubling […]
Physics paper sets record with more than 5,000 authors
by Davide Castelvecchi from Nature doi:10.1038/nature.2015.17567 Detector teams at the Large Hadron Collider collaborated for a more precise estimate of the size of the Higgs boson. A physics paper with […]
Proton smasher spots rare particle decays
by Daria Zieminska from Nature (2015) doi:10.1038/nature14520 The extremely rare decays of particles known as neutral B mesons have been observed at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider. The result may be […]
The mass of a top
by Peter Skands from Nature 514, 174–176 (09 October 2014) doi:10.1038/514174a A measurement of the mass of the heftiest-known elementary particle, the top quark, which exists for less than a […]