A long-running experiment finds a tiny particle is still acting weird
New York (AP)-Final results from a long time UK -based experience Tuesday was announced, when a small particle continues to behave strangely – but this is still good news for Physics laws As we know them.
“This experiment is a great achievement in accuracy,” said Touva Holmes, an experimental physical at the University of Tennessee, Noxfille, who is not part of the cooperation.
Mysterious molecules called Muons are a heavier cousin of electrons. Like the top part when it is inside a magnetic field, scientists study that movement to see if it is lined with the Book of the founding rules of physics called the standard model.
Experiments in the 1960s and the 1970s seem to indicate that everything is fine. But the tests in the National Laboratory Laboratory in the late nineties and early first decade of the twentieth century produced something unexpected: the colon was not acting as it should.
After decades, international cooperation for scientists decided to restart experiences with a higher degree of accuracy. The team Monons raced about a magnetic path in the form of an episode-which is the same used in the Brockhagen-and Dersherap of their signing in the Fermi National Accelerator near Chicago.
It seems that the first two groups of results – which were revealed in 2021 and 2023 – confirm the strange behavior of Monunes, prompting theoretical physicists to try to reconcile the new measurements with the standard model.
Now, the group completed the experiment and issued a measurement of MUON, which is agreed with what it found before, using more than twice the amount of data compared to 2023. They presented their results to the physical review letters of the magazine.
However, the time has not yet been closed to our primary understanding of what the universe collects together. While the colon raced around their path, other scientists found a way to reconcile their behavior more closely with the standard model with the help of giant computers.
There is still more work to do as the researchers continue to assemble their heads together, and future experiences take a stab in the MUON TwOBLE – including one in the PROTON ACCELERATOR research complex in Japan, which is expected to start near the end of the contract. Scientists also analyze the final MUON data to see if they can collect information about other mysterious entities such as Dark Matter.
“This measurement will remain a standard … for many years to come.”
Peter Winter said with the Arjun National Laboratory that scientists are seeking to answer the basic questions that humanity has long received.
“Are we all curious to understand how the universe works?” He said winter.
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