Physics

A careful search for the extremely rare transformation of the Higgs boson has yielded results, providing the first evidence of a process that could hint at an unknown particle. By reconciling the results of several years of protons crashing into two different detectors at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC), physicists have bumped up the statistical … Read more

The ATLAS Collaboration has pioneered the search for near-visible jets, a possible signal of dark matter arising from dark quarks and gluons in the highly interacting dark sector. Despite the challenges and lack of direct results, this new research sets the first frontier for producing near-visual jets, paving the way for more precise searches for … Read more

https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.04531 Valuable and often hidden information about a person’s immediate surroundings can be gained from the object’s reflection. By repurposing them as cameras, one can perform previously unimaginable feats, such as looking through walls or into the sky. This is challenging because many factors influence reflections, including object geometry, material properties, 3D environment, and observer … Read more

CERN’s ATLAS and CMS team has found preliminary evidence for the rare Higgs boson’s decay into a Z boson and a photon. The discovery, while not meeting traditional statistical significance, provides valuable insights and potential indirect evidence for undiscovered particles and physics outside the Standard Model. Credit: CERN ATLAS and CMS Collaboration Efforts to Create … Read more

This article has been reviewed according to Science X’s editing process And Policies. editors Highlight the following attributes while ensuring the credibility of the content: Fact check Respected news agency Proofreading Yes! Stephen Hawking in his Cambridge office, where he first met his recent assistant, Thomas Hertog. When Thomas Hertog was first called into Stephen … Read more

This article has been reviewed according to Science X’s editing process And Policies. editors Highlight the following attributes while ensuring the credibility of the content: Fact check Peer-reviewed publication trusted source Proofreading Yes! Numerical modeling yields a fracture signature with typical pinch points (left) and should be experimentally observable with neutron scattering. Allowing quantum fluctuations … Read more

Astronomers studying black holes have serendipitously found another rarity: a dead star blasting away from its supernova generator, leaving behind a comet-like trail of radio emissions. Named PSR J1914+1054g, the star is the fourth of its kind: a radio pulsar that blasted at high speed through space, and astronomers not only noticed the pulsar but … Read more

It’s spring now in the Northern Hemisphere, and the world around us is green. Outside my window, trees are full of leaves that act like miniature plants, collecting sunlight and turning it into food. We know this basic transaction takes place, but how does photosynthesis really happen? During photosynthesis, plants use quantum mechanical processes. In … Read more

This article has been reviewed according to Science X’s editing process And Policies. editors Highlight the following attributes while ensuring the credibility of the content: Fact check Peer-reviewed publication trusted source Proofreading Yes! Representative diagram of potential recombination pathways. (MQW: multiple quantum well, RL: red luminescence, YL: yellow luminescence). Credit: Chiu et al. The absolute … Read more

by Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy (MBI) May 26, 2023 Artist’s impression of the XMCD experiment. The soft X-ray light from the plasma source is first circularly polarized by transmission through a magnetic film. Then, the magnetism in the actual sample can be accurately determined. Credit: Christian Tzchachel Researchers from … Read more