Here’s how it works. The Standard Model of physics is the theory of particles, fields and the fundamental forces that govern them. It tells us about how families of elementary particles group ...

The model was built through the 20th century on the foundations of quantum mechanics, the strange theory that describes how particles behave at the tiniest scales. The Standard Model explains ...

The European Organization for Nuclear Research, better known as CERN, is one of the few places on Earth capable of routinely ...

Two UT Austin physicists were part of a collaboration that won the Breakthrough Prize for work at the Large Hadron Collider.

The Higgs boson, discovered at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in 2012, plays a central role in the Standard Model of ...

Experiments with hydrogen atoms could soon reveal whether particles that were long thought to be forbidden by physics actually do exist ...

This has left physicists baffled, and the Standard Model (the five-decade-old theory of how particles should behave) open to doubt. The strong force in the Standard Model The reigning theory of ...