A recent observation of an extremely rare subatomic process allows scientists to test the Standard Model’s boundaries. At the smallest scales, matter is governed by a series of rules outlined in the ...

A team of researchers from China, Germany and the U.S. has found that boson sampling with photons is a viable option for testing for quantum supremacy, despite photons leaking from a given test system ...

Scientists know the Higgs boson interacts with extremely massive particles. Now, they’re starting to study how it interacts with lighter particles as well. Immediately after the Big Bang, every ...

In a talk at the ongoing Rencontres de Moriond conference, the ATLAS collaboration presented the result of its latest test of a key principle of the Standard Model of particle physics known as lepton ...

Boris Tuchming is at the Institute of Research into the Fundamental Laws of the Universe and in the Department of Particle Physics, CEA University of Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France.