Understanding the universe's building blocks, the Standard Model categorizes particles and explains forces, yet leaves ...

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The standard model of particle physics is often illustrated as a simple grid showing the 17 basic particles (shown above). But an alternative way of visualising it reveals the complex rules that ...

In a recent experiment, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN produced particles believed to have only existed in the ...

In the late 1960s and 1970s, researchers unified these discoveries into a single theoretical framework now known as the ...

Wondering whether whether Dark Matter particles actually are produced inside a jet of standard model particles, led researchers to explore a new detector signature known as semi-visible jets, which ...

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Dark Matter remains one of the biggest mysteries in fundamental physics. Many theoretical proposals (axions, WIMPs) and 40 years of extensive experimental search failed to provide any explanation of ...

Neutrinos are one of the most enigmatic particles in the standard model. The main reason is that they're so hard to detect.

New research suggests that there is a 90% chance that within the next decade, humanity could use a space or Earth-based ...