Imagine trying to prove that 1+1=2, but when you do the calculations, it turns out that the result is off by 0.1%. That scenario is similar to the riddle that’s facing physicists worldwide as they try ...

Although its existence had been theorized for decades, the Higgs boson was finally observed to exist in 2012 at the Large ...

The Muon g-2 ring sits in its detector hall amidst electronics racks, the muon beamline, and other equipment. This impressive experiment operates at negative 450 degrees Fahrenheit and studies the ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: For nearly a century, the magnetic anomaly of the fundamental particle known as a muon has served as a means to test theories against experimental ...

For three decades, a riddle has followed neutrinos, the near-weightless particles that stream through Earth by the trillions ...

A U.S. research lab has announced one of the most precise measurements ever of how a subatomic particle behaves, teeing up a showdown that could either vindicate one of science's most powerful ...

New results from the MicroBooNE experiment at Fermilab found no evidence of a hypothetical fourth flavor of neutrino ...

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For experimental physicists, the latest measurement of the muon is the best of times. For theorists there's still work to do.

Scientists have taken a major step toward solving a long-standing mystery in particle physics, by finding no sign of the ...

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