With a new measurement imminent, the Courier explores the experimental results and theoretical calculations used to predict ...

University of Queensland scientists have cracked a long-standing puzzle in nuclear physics, showing that nuclear polarization ...

This pion-to-muon decay happens higher than 10 km above the Earth’s surface. But the muons have a lifetime at rest of 2.2 μs. This means that the number of muons peak at around 10 km and ...

A pair of top quarks has been detected in the detritus spraying forth from the collision of two atoms of lead. It's the first ...

Neutrinos are emitted when protons are converted into neutrons during beta radioactive decay 6. In 1933, an Italian physicist named Enrico Fermi named Pauli’s mystery particle the “neutrino ... types ...

The heaviest, CMS (for Compact Muon Solenoid ... kind of particle that sticks around in a manner that we can detect—in a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of a second it will decay into ...

To date, three kinds of neutrinos have been identified, each by association with an electron, muon or tau particle ... consisted of measuring radioactive decay in beryllium, which decayed into ...

Muon tomography, or muography, is the practice of using muons generated by cosmic rays interacting with Earth’s atmosphere to image structures on Earth’s surface, akin to producing an X-ray.

The DFG Research Unit “Searching for charged lepton flavour violation with the Mu3e experiment” based in physics will be continuing its successful work in a second funding period. The German Research ...

The NA62 experiment is roughly 270 metres long and is housed in the TCC8 and ECN3 caverns in CERN's North Area. (Image: M.Brice/CERN) EPFL ...