N:1 Tantalizing results of 2 experiments defy physics rulebook

Preliminary results from two experiments suggest that something might be wrong with the basic way physicists think the universe works, a perspective that has the field of particle physics baffled and excited.

The smaller particles are not doing exactly what is expected of them when spun around two different long-running experiments in the United States and Europe. The confusing results, if proven correct, reveal major problems with the rule book physicists use to describe and understand how the free tiktok fans  universe works at the subatomic level.

Theoretical physicist Matthew McCullough of CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, said that unraveling the mysteries could "take us beyond our current understanding of nature."

The rule book, called the Standard Model, was developed about 50 years ago. Experiments over the decades claimed time and again that their descriptions of the particles and forces that make up and govern the universe were quite accurate. Until now.

"New particles, new physics could be beyond our investigation," said Alexey Petrov, a particle physicist at free hacks Wayne State University. "It is tempting".

The U.S. Department of Energy's Fermilab announced Wednesday the results of 8.2 billion races along a track outside Chicago that, while boring to most people, has physicists on the go: the snapchat hacks Magnetic field around a fleeting subatomic particle is not what the Standard Model says it should be. This follows new results published last month from CERN's Large Hadron Collider that found a surprising proportion of particles after high-speed collisions.

Petrov, who was not involved in any of the experiments, was initially skeptical of the Large Hadron Collider results when the first clues emerged in 2014. With the most recent and most comprehensive results, he said he is now "cautiously ecstatic."

The aim of the experiments, explains the theoretical free coin master spins  physicist at Johns Hopkins University, David Kaplan, is to separate the particles and discover if there is "something strange" with both the particles and the apparently empty space between them. 

“Secrets don't just live in matter. They live in something that seems to fill all space and time. These are quantum fields,” Kaplan said. “We put energy in the void and see what comes out.”

My set of results includes a passing strange particle called a muon. The muon is the heavier cousin of an electron that orbits the center of the atom. But a muon is not part of an atom, it is unstable and usually only present for a period of microseconds. After its discovery in cosmic rays in 1936, scientists were so confused that a famous physicist asked "Who commanded this?"

"From the very beginning, it was making the physicists scratch their heads," said Graziano Finazzoni, an experimental physicist at an Italian national laboratory and one of the best scientists in the US Fermilab experiment, called Muon g-2.

The experiment sends muons around a magnetic path that maintains the particles' existence long enough for researchers to get a closer look at them. Preliminary results indicate that the muons' magnetic "spin" is 0.1% less than what the standard model predicts. This may not sound like much, but to particle physicists, it is huge - more than enough to turn current understanding on its head.

It takes another year or two for the researchers to finish analyzing the results of all laps around the 50-foot (14 m) track. Finanzoni said that if the results did not change, it would be considered a major discovery.

Separately, at the world's largest atom smasher at CERN, physicists smash protons against each other there to see what happens next. One of the many separate particle colliding experiments measures what happens when particles called camels or bottom quarks collide.

The Standard Model predicts that the crushing camel quark should produce equal numbers of electrons and muons. It's a bit like flipping a coin 1,000 times and getting an equal number of heads and tails, said Chris Parks, head of the LHC beauty experiment.