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As a physicist working at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at Cern, one of the most frequent questions I am asked is “When are you going to find something?”. Resisting the temptation to sarcastically ...
By Mackenzie Devereux The Standard Model, depicting the fundamental building blocks of the universe, including top quarks. Courtesy of Cush via Wikimedia Commons Sitong An, a physicist at Carnegie ...
The latest results have moved scientists closer to disproving the standard model of particle physics, though uncertainty still remains. A new study has bolstered the idea that an unknown fifth force ...
String theory attempts to unify all forces and particles in the universe using vibrating strings. It aims to explain the Standard Model of particle physics, which is incomplete. String theory predicts ...
Pioneering work Illustration of how a proton collision (left) at the Large Hadron Collider creates a beauty baryon (centre) that then decays into products that are detected by LHCb (right). (Courtesy: ...
Funding is provided via the China Scholarship Council. Available to Chinese applicants only. Applicant required to start in September 2025. The studentship arrangement will cover overseas tuition fees ...
There is a new Physics model that challenges the standard Big Bang theory. By definition, “ The Big Bang ” is how astronomers explain the way the universe began. “The Big Bang” is the idea that the ...