#standard-model

#standard-model

After all, the 20th century was a century of theoretical triumphs: we were able, on both subatomic and cosmic scales, to at last make sense of the Universe that surrounded and comprised us. We figured out what the fundamental forces and interactions governing physics were, what the fundamental constituents of matter were, how they assembled to form the world we observe and inhabit, and how to predict what the results of any experiment performed with those quanta would be.

The discovery of the Higgs completed the particle content of the Standard Model but has deepened the puzzles regarding the Higgs field's role, prompting a need for further measurements.

Recent precision measurements on antiprotonic systems have advanced our understanding of fundamental symmetries in particle physics and tested the limits of the Standard Model.

On Thursday, researchers unveiled the most precise measurement yet of a neutrino, scaling down the maximum possible mass of the ghostly specks of matter that permeate our universe.