The beginning of the universe: Cosmic inflation with standard particle physics repertoire

How did the universe come into being? There are a multitude of theories on this subject. In a Physical Review Letters paper, three scientists formulate a new model: according to this, inflation, the ...

Chinese American Nobel laureate who pioneered modern particle theory dies at 103

Nobel laureate Chen Ning Yang, who spent decades advancing physics in both the U.S. and China, died in Beijing on Saturday at ...
The Yazoo Herald

Global Collaboration Reveals New Insights into 'Ghost Particles'

University of Mississippi researchers supported a groundbreaking international study that has produced the most precise ...

Scientists Have A New Model For The Big Bang Theory That Changes Everything

Scientists have been using complicated, hypothetical particles to explain the Big Bang, but this theory posits that a simpler ...
Purdue University

Purdue physicists part of discovery of rare particle decay predicted by the Standard Model

Red lines show the disintegration of a B-sub-s into two muons in the CMS camera at the Large Hadron Collider. Yello, green and blue are used to denote particles other than muons. Purdue University ...

The search for neutrinoless double beta decay gets some noise cancelling headphones

Deep under a mountain in Italy, researchers continue to push the boundaries of science with an experiment that could rewrite ...
The Conversation

Peter Higgs was one of the greats of particle physics. He transformed what we know about the building blocks of the universe

Harald Fox receives funding from UKRI. Peter Higgs, who gave his name to the subatomic particle known as the Higgs boson, has died aged 94. He was always a modest man, especially when considering that ...