by bicubic | Jul 15, 2022 | Outreach articles, News, New Physics
Saphir Millennium Institute postdoctoral researcher Pedro Urrejola talks about what excites him about particle physics and the aims 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
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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 proven, it could expand the standard model of particle physics and explain the fact that the known neutrinos have mass (which the standard model cannot explain). The oscillation of heavy neutrinos...
by bicubic | Jan 28, 2022 | News, Press Releases, News
In an experiment at the Queen's Centre for Nuclear Studies, a team from the Saphir Millennium Institute subjected two electronic cards to a dose of radiation equivalent to what they would receive after 10 years of operation in the Large Atlas experiment...