News tagged with standard model

CMS in 2011: A mountain of particle collision data

Datasets are the currency of physics. As data accumulate, measurement uncertainty ranges shrink, increasing the potential for discoveries and making non-observations more stringent, with more far-reaching ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 17, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 5

Interview: 'Next year we will see the Higgs particle - or exclude its existence'

(PhysOrg.com) -- Interview with Prof. Dr. Siegfried Bethke, Director at the Max Planck Institute of Physics in Munich, about the current research results from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 24, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (7) | comments 24

Large Hadron Collider proton run for 2011 reaches successful conclusion

(PhysOrg.com) -- After some 180 days of running and four hundred trillion (4x1014) proton proton collisions, the LHC’s 2011 proton run came to an end at 5.15pm yesterday evening. For the second year runni ...

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created Oct 31, 2011 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (15) | comments 11 | with audio podcast

Time reversal: A simple particle could reveal new physics

(PhysOrg.com) -- A simple atomic nucleus could reveal properties associated with the mysterious phenomenon known as time reversal and lead to an explanation for one of the greatest mysteries of physics: the ...

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 11, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (40) | comments 128 | with audio podcast

Cosmic weight watching reveals black hole-galaxy history

(PhysOrg.com) -- Using state-of-the-art technology and sophisticated data analysis tools, a team of astronomers from the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy has developed a new and powerful technique to directly ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Sep 30, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

The edge of significance

Some recent work on Type 1a supernovae velocities suggests that the universe may not be as isotropic as our current standard model (LambdaCDM) requires it to be. ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Sep 19, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 22

Graduate's Belle experiment thesis published in Physical Review

Working together with other UH Manoa colleagues on the Belle experiment at the KEKB factory in Tsukuba, Japan, postdoctoral researcher Himansu Sahoo first reported the first observation of a new type of rare ...

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 16, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 2

How slow is slow? EXO knows

(PhysOrg.com) -- Cooks think of watched pots. Handymen grumble about drying paint. Kids dread the endless night before Christmas morning.

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 09, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (8) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Neutrinos: Ghostly particles with unstable egos

So far it is unknown which rules neutrinos follow when they alter their identity. A study in which scientists of the Excellence Cluster Universe at the Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany, participated has now revealed ...

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created Sep 06, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 9 | with audio podcast

CERN's LHCb experiment takes precision physics to a new level

(PhysOrg.com) -- Results presented by CERN1's LHCb experiment at the biennial Lepton-Photon conference in Mumbai, India on Saturday 27 August are becoming the most precise yet on particles called B mesons, which provide a ...

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created Aug 29, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Z-prime search may hurdle Higgs hunt

If you're bummed about humanity's biggest accelerator not producing a Higgs particle yet, maybe the latest effort to find a Z-prime will make you feel better. ...

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created Aug 25, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Rare particle decay could mean new physics

(PhysOrg.com) -- An incredibly rare sub-atomic particle decay might not be quite as rare as previously predicted, say Cornell researchers. This discovery, culled from a vast data set at the Collider Detector at Fermilab (CDF), ...

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created Aug 23, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (22) | comments 27 | with audio podcast

Hints fade of elusive physics 'God particle'

International scientists searching to solve the greatest riddle in all of physics said Monday that signs are fading of the elusive Higgs-Boson particle, which is believed to give objects mass.

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created Aug 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 31

LHC experiments eliminate more Higgs hiding spots (Update)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Two experimental collaborations at the Large Hadron Collider, located at CERN laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland, announced today that they have significantly narrowed the mass region in which the Higgs ...

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created Aug 22, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 18 | with audio podcast

Physicists closing in on the elusive Higgs boson

Scientists at a meeting in Grenoble, France, recently stoked speculation that physicists at the world's biggest particle accelerator may soon provide a first look at the elusive Higgs boson - the final piece of evidence needed ...

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created Aug 17, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 26

Standard Model

The Standard Model of particle physics is a theory of three of the four known fundamental interactions and the elementary particles that take part in these interactions. These particles make up all visible matter in the universe. The standard model is a gauge theory of the electroweak and strong interactions with the gauge group SU(3)×SU(2)×U(1).

Every high energy physics experiment carried out since the mid-20th century has eventually yielded findings consistent with the Standard Model. Still, the Standard Model falls short of being a complete theory of fundamental interactions because it does not include gravity, dark matter, or dark energy. It isn't quite a complete description of leptons either, because it does not describe nonzero neutrino masses, although simple natural extensions do.

For more information about Standard Model, read the full article at Wikipedia.
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