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UMass Amherst researchers contribute to landmark findings April 7, 2021 David Flay examines the Muon g-2 plunging probe installation. Photo courtesy DOE. AMHERST, Mass. – The long-awaited first results from the Muon g-2 experiment at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory show fundamental particles called muons behaving in a way that is not predicted by scientists’ best theory, the Standard Model of particle physics. This landmark result, made wit...

A fifth force of nature has been found and it violates the laws of physics – why are we still in existence? “Muon g-2” sounds like a villainous robot in a sci-fi movie, but it’s actually the experiment conducted at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Chicago that resulted in the discovery that muons – massive cousins of electrons – wobble while spinning through a strong magnetic field and the force created is not known under the Standard Model ...

Wobbling Muons May Hint at Unknown Forces   Apr 08, 2021 The preliminary results of a study of elementary particles at Fermilab and elsewhere show that the behavior of particles called muons deviates from standard physical theories, indicating that previously unknown forces are at work. Evidence is mounting that a tiny subatomic particle seems to be disobeying the known laws of physics, scientists announced on Wednesday, a finding that would open a vast and tantalizing hole in our understandin...

JMU physicist, students had role in groundbreaking discovery at Fermilab Published Thursday, Apr. 8, 2021, 1:34 pm Join AFPs 100,000+ followers on Facebook Purchase a subscription to AFP | Subscribe to AFP podcasts on iTunes News, press releases, letters to the editor: augustafreepress2@gmail.com Front Page » Local/State » Local1 » JMU physicist, students had role in groundbreaking discovery at Fermilab (© steheap – stock.adobe.com) JMU physicist Kevin Giovanetti and students he has ment...

Posted Today The first results from the Muon g-2 experiment at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory have revealed that fundamental particles called muons behave in a way that is not predicted by scientists’ best theory to date, the Standard Model of particle physics. This landmark result, published in Physical Review Letters, confirms a discrepancy that has been gnawing at researchers for decades. The strong evidence that muons deviate from the Standa...

7 April 2021, 11:01 pm EDT By The universe is indeed a vast space of different bodies, and it is no wonder how it holds all things around it. There are times that laws in Physics could not be able to explain how a particle behaves - like in the case of this subatomic particle which defies the law of the field. On Wednesday, Apr. 7, scientists found out this particle exhibiting a weird wobbling. This could be a jumpstart for an exploration in the world of quantum physics, where discoveries are ...

This week, scientists at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois, announced a breakthrough result that could upend particle physics. It turns out that when you expose particles known as muons—aka “fat electrons”—to intense magnetic fields, they behave in ways that can’t be explained by physics as we know it, suggesting there’s a bunch of stuff happening in the quantum world for scientists to uncover. The result has been highly anticipated among physicists for ...

Scientists sent muons through a 50ft long circular electromagnet to measure how they ‘wobble’ over time They wobbled 0.1 per cent off what was expected by the Standard Model that has been used for 50 years  The discover suggests that the muon could be interacting with undiscovered particles or forces of nature UK’s Science and Technology Facilities Council said the result ‘provides strong evidence for existence of an undiscovered sub-atomic particle or new force’  Daily Mail: Scient...

Muons arent spinning the way the best physics model predicts. Why not? It may be due to completely unknown subatomic particles popping into and out of existence in the quantum foam. This isnt some sort of sci-fi technobabble. This is from quite real experimental results, and may very well be the Universe telling us we dont yet understand everything about it. These extremely interesting and possibly game-changing results come from Fermilab, a high-energy particle accelerator laboratory in Illino...

Strange Muon Wobble Leads To New Force of Nature Discovery The experiment that returned the potentially paradigm-shattering results and the idea of a new force of nature involved subatomic particles known as muons. A muon is a negatively charged particle with a similar profile to an electron (both are classified as leptons). But the mass of the muon is 200 times greater than that of its ethereal cousin the electron. In nature, muons are produced by high-energy interactions involving particle...