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The Higgs boson was supposed to be the final piece of the Standard Model puzzle. Confirmed at the Large Hadron Collider in ...

A team of physicists has proposed a never-before-seen particle existing in a warped fifth dimension that could connect ...

New research suggests a particle inside an atom can lose mass, offering a fresh look at how matter works at the smallest scale.

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Dr Victoria Martin is a Reader in particle physics at the University of Edinburgh. She co-leads the University of Edinburgh team on the Atlas experiment, which co-discovered the Higgs boson in July ...

A neglected force produced by neutrinos and other particles helps atomic physics measurements align with predictions of the standard model.

When the Nobel Prize in Physics was announced in Stockholm in October 2013, the world was watching. Among the names read out was Prof Peter Higgs, the British theorist who, nearly half a century ...

Abstract: This paper describes the development of a particle reconstruction method using deep learning techniques based on graph neural networks, specifically employing the GravNet architecture and ...

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Every time two beams of particles collide inside an accelerator, the universe lets us in on a little secret. Sometimes it's a particle no one has ever seen. Other times, it's a fleeting glimpse of ...