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Results of two experiments defy the ‘physics rulebook’ AP Preliminary results from two experiments suggest that something could be wrong with the basic way that physicists think the universe works, a prospect that has the field of particle physics both baffled and thrilled. Tiny particles called muons are not quite doing what is expected of them in two long-running experiments in the US and Europe. The confounding results — if proven right — reveal major problems with the rulebook that ...

Particle Mystery Deepens As ‘Strong’ New Evidence Hints at ‘5th’ Force in Nature Reidar Hahn/Fermilab Like the four cardinal elements of yore, or the four cardinal directions, there are also four forces of nature—the ones which cause particles to move in different ways, like gravity and electromagnetism. Through discoveries made while working with a fundamental particle called the muon, physicists working in Chicago have recently made the case for a fifth force of natur...

Meet muons — tiny subatomic particles that indicate there could be a fifth fundamental force of nature Meet muons — tiny subatomic particles that indicate there could be a fifth fundamental force of nature Prabhjote GillApr 8, 2021, 15:28 IST p The Muon g-2 particle storage ring holds tiny subatomic particle that could be giving birth to new physics br /p Fermilab Tiny subatomic particles called muons aren’t moving according to the known laws of physics An international team of 200 ph...

BBC News By Pallab Ghosh image captionThe findings come from the US Muon g-2 experiment From sticking a magnet on a fridge door to throwing a ball into a basketball hoop, the forces of physics are at play in every moment of our lives. All of the forces we experience every day can be reduced to just four categories: gravity, electromagnetism, the strong force and the weak force. Now, physicists say they have found possible signs of a fifth fundamental force of nature. The findings come from rese...

New experiment hints that a particle breaks the known laws of physics Michael Greshko © Photograph by Reidar Hahn, Fermilab The Muon g-2 ring sits in its detector hall amidst electronics racks, the muon beamline, and other equipment. This impressive experiment operates at negative 450 degrees Fahrenheit and studies the precession (or wobble) of muons as they travel through the magnetic field. In a landmark experiment, scientists have found fresh evidence that a subatomic part...

Share this article Share this article CHICAGO, April 7, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The long-awaited first results from the Muon g-2 experiment at the U.S. Department of Energys 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 with unprecedented precision, confirms a discrepancy that has been gnawing at researchers for decades. Muon g-2 exp...

April 7, 2021 Scientists are testing our fundamental understanding of the universe, and there’s much more to discover. Argonne’s Ran Hong (left) and Simon Corrodi (right) installing the calibration probe at the 4 Tesla Solenoid Facility. (Image by Mark Lopez/Argonne National Laboratory.) What do touch screens, radiation therapy and shrink wrap have in common? They were all made possible by particle physics research. Discoveries of how the universe works at the smallest scale often lead to h...

share: What follows is a sidebar to a press release issued today by the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), describing new results from the Muon g-2 experiment moved to Fermilab from DOE’s Brookhaven National Laboratory. Brookhaven Lab will host a colloquium given by Brookhaven physicist Vladimir Tishchenko on Friday, April 9, 2021, at 11 a.m. U.S. Eastern Time to discuss the new result.  Background on Brookhaven Labs Involvement in the M...

‘Tantalizing’ results of two experiments defy physics rulebook By SETH BORENSTEIN The Associated Press,Updated April 7, 2021, 1:03 p.m. Email to a Friend The LHCb Muon system at the European Organization for Nuclear Research Large Hadron Collider facility outside of Geneva in 2018. Preliminary results published of experiments from CERN and the Fermilab facility in the US challenge the way physicists think the universe works, a prospect that has the field of particle physics both ba...

Scientists just reported new subatomic particle measurements that could break the Standard Model This could be the biggest news in physics since the Higgs boson. As muons race around a ring at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, their spin axes twirl, reflecting the influence of unseen particles. Credit: Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. The Standard Model of particle physics explains how the basic building blocks of matter interact, governed by four fundamental forces. It’s bas...