For years, one tiny mismatch in particle physics carried outsized hopes. The muon, a heavier and short-lived cousin of the ...

Collaboration that made precise measurement of the g-2 value honored with $3 million from the Breakthrough Prize in ...

In 2021, the first result from the Muon g-2 experiment at Fermilab confirmed a two-decade-old measurement from Brookhaven, ...

A major obstacle in calculating the muon’s behavior is the strong force, the most powerful of the four fundamental forces, along with gravity, electromagnetism, and the weak force. It binds quarks ...

The muon g−2 experiments at CERN, Brookhaven, and Fermilab have been among the most precise in particle physics, earning the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics. Cornell physicist Lawrence ...

Physicists have spent the last 20 years pondering an apparent discrepancy between experimental results and theoretical ...

The unusually large Muon has threatened the Standard Model for decades, but new data parks the particle inside the cozy confines of established physics. Reading time 3 minutes Another nail may seal ...

Atanu Nath, assistant professor from Assam, won the 2026 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics for his work on the Muon g ...

Scientists from collaborations at Fermilab, CERN and Brookhaven National Laboratory have won the 2026 Breakthrough Prize in ...

Sometimes, a major discovery is exactly what you were hoping not to find. That’s the case with a team at Penn State who seem ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...

A tiny discrepancy in particle physics has loomed for decades as an exciting possible crack in one of science's most ...