Long-Awaited Muon Measurement Boosts Evidence for New Physics

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April 07, 2021

Physics Long-Awaited Muon Measurement Boosts Evidence for New Physics Initial data from the Muon g-2 experiment have excited particle physicists searching for undiscovered subatomic particles and forces By Daniel Garisto

Physics Is the Standard Model of Physics Now Broken? The discrepancy between the theoretical prediction and the experimentally determined value of the muon's magnetic moment has become slightly stronger with a new result from Fermilab. But what does it mean? By Sabine Hossenfelder

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FROM THE STORE Scientific American Space & Physics, Volume 3, Issue 6

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FROM THE ARCHIVE Muons: The Little-Known Particles Helping to Probe the Impenetrable The ubiquitous particles are helping to map the innards of pyramids and volcanoes, and spot missing nuclear waste By Elizabeth Gibney,Nature magazine | May 2018

QUOTE OF THE DAY "It's too soon to declare the Standard Model broken." Sabine Hossenfelder, physicist and research fellow at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies in Germany

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