Physicists are eyeing charged gravitinos—ultra-heavy, stable particles from supergravity theory—as possible Dark Matter ...
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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 ...
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Wang Yifang, from the Chinese Academy of Sciences which collaborated with 700 physicists worldwide, told The Times: “We are ...
The top quark’s extreme mass makes it decay almost immediately after it is produced. “The top and antitop quarks just have ...
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Do kaons decay using a new kind of physics? Researchers are trying to explain their anomalous findings. Their larger experiment is an ongoing investigation of CP symmetry. The anomalies could be ...