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| ajafari | Physics
Supersymmetry, or SUSY in short, is an exciting and beautiful theory that answers some of the open questions in particle physics, predicting that all known particles have a partner (a superpartner!) with somewhat different properties. For example,…
| ajafari | Physics
The discovery of the Higgs boson represents a significant breakthrough in understanding the universe’s fundamental structure and dynamics. Despite this achievement, numerous profound mysteries persist, namely what is the nature of dark matter, why…
| sohurst | Physics
CMS has released 12 new results for the spring conferences (LHCP 2024, SQM 2024, and SUSY24), spanning its entire physics program: - Studying high momentum top quark-antiquark pairs, we have observed, for the first time, entanglement between top…
| ajafari | Physics
  Did you know that every second more than 100 trillion tiny particles called neutrinos pass through your body without causing any harm? These mysterious particles are produced abundantly throughout the universe in events like nuclear reactions…
| ajafari | Physics
Recently, and about two decades after the first solid proof of entanglement between two photons by Anton Zeilinger and his team, the ATLAS and CMS experiments reported the observation of quantum entanglement between the top quark and its…
| ajafari | Physics
    It might have occurred to you to look with curiosity at your present the day of your birthday. Wrapped in colorful paper, a surprise was waiting for you. You might be the kind of person who rushes to remove the packaging to see what’s…
| ajafari | Physics
The recent results from the Muon g-2 Collaboration have added to the growing tension between the measured and predicted values of the muon’s magnetic moment. The equivalent measurement of this property for the electron is a cornerstone of quantum…
| ajafari | Physics
  New in! CMS physicists search for heavy cousins of the neutrino in beauty meson decays Back in 2018, the physicists of the CMS experiment designed and recorded a B-meson-enriched data sample, the “B-Parking” data set. The B mesons (short for…
| ajafari | Physics
When we look at ourselves in a mirror, we see a virtual twin, identical but with left and right inverted. Charge-parity (CP) is the equivalent of a mirror for fundamental particles. If the symmetry was respected in nature, each particle would see a…
| ajafari | Physics
From time to time, we need to take our cars in for a checkup to make sure everything is up to speed, and here we check up on how well our CMS detector is working. The CMS detector is one of the main detectors at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at…
| ajafari | Physics
As a next step towards more open access to science, the CMS collaboration has just released in electronic format a set of likelihood functions describing early measurements of the Higgs boson. The full statistical model and the data used to make the…
| sohurst | Physics
The CMS collaboration released over 40 new results in Winter 2024, presented at various conferences around the world. The largest part of these results has been presented for the first time at the Moriond 2024 conferences: Electroweak Interactions…