Every year the Foundation asks 3000 physicists to nominate individuals for the prize, and compiles a short-list of 250 candidates. These names are then whittled down to a list of 30, from which the wi...
Supersymmetry is an attractive theory to physicists as it provides a connection between all known elementary particles and can simplify many complex interactions. High energy supersymmetry suggests th...
Parisi won the award for his work in a wide number of fields. The official citation highlights “his study of scaling violations in deep inelastic processes (Altarelli-Parisi equations), a model ...
The RHIC seeks to recreate the primordial “soup” of particles that existed immediately after the big bang and from which everyday matter formed. Today quarks only exist inside strongly int...
‘t Hooft has made several crucial contributions to the Standard Model of particle physics. In 1967 Salam and Weinberg showed how to unify the weak and electromagnetic interactions – two of...
Wagner, who is 58, studied physics at the Technical University of Munich and the universities of Göttingen and Heidelberg. After spells as a research associate at Heidelberg and the Lawrence Berk...
Neutrinos come in three flavours – electron, muon and tau neutrinos. According to the Standard Model of particle physics they have zero mass and only interact weakly with matter, which makes the...
Researchers have been worried about the discrepancy between the experimental data and simulations at Super-Kamiokande for some time. According to the simulations, the experiment was detecting too few ...
Charge-parity (CP) symmetry implies that particles and antiparticles behave like mirror images of each other. Charge conjugation changes particles into their antiparticles – e.g., electrons beco...
The experiment also found that changes in the strength of the Earth’s magnetic field with latitude do not alter the number of low-energy protons hitting the Earth’s atmosphere. However the...
