by bicubic | Jul 15, 2022 | Outreach articles, News, New Physics
Saphir Millennium Institute postdoctoral researcher Pedro Urrejola talks about his passion for particle physics and the goals of his research. He says that in order to discover new particles and extend the standard model, it is not enough to...
by bicubic | Apr 6, 2022 | Disclosure
Cover image: The One that Shatters in the Air. Credits: Florian Voggeneder. Source: Flickr.com Are you interested in science? Would you like to experience firsthand the work of a scientist, guided by real scientists? Then sign up for the workshop....
by bicubic | Mar 1, 2022 | Outreach articles, News, New Physics
The Large Hadron Collider has not discovered any new fundamental particles since it detected the Higgs boson in 2012. Why? Are there shortcomings in the detectors, in the search strategies, in the accelerator itself? Or is it simply that what is already known is?
by bicubic | Feb 4, 2022 | Subatomic Physics, Standard Model, Neutrinos, News, What's New
If the existence of heavy neutrinos is demonstrated, it could expand the standard model of particle physics and explain the fact that the already known neutrinos have mass (something the standard model cannot explain). The oscillation of heavy neutrinos...
by bicubic | Jan 28, 2022 | News, Press Releases, News
In an experiment conducted at the La Reina Nuclear Studies Center, a team from the Saphir Millennium Institute subjected two electronic cards to a dose of radiation equivalent to that which they would receive after 10 years of operation in the Atlas experiment of the Great...