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Protons and antiprotons appear to be true mirror images

The RIKEN collaboration has confirmed proton-antiproton symmetry through a high-precision experiment testing CPT invariance. The results show that charge-to-mass ratios are identical within 69 parts per trillion, constraining violations of the standard model and informing future research on antimatter and dark matter.

SourceRIKEN·JournalNature·DateAug 12, 2015

Kent State professor publishes exact solution to model Big Bang and quark gluon plasma

A team of researchers led by Kent State professor Michael Strickland has developed an exact solution to a complex physics equation, enabling more accurate modeling of the universe's earliest moments and high-energy particle collisions. The breakthrough has far-reaching implications for fields like galactic structure, supernovae, and he...

SourceKent State University·JournalPhysical Review Letters·DateDec 16, 2014

New data bolsters Higgs boson discovery

Researchers from Rice University have found evidence of the direct decay of the Higgs boson to fermions, a fundamental particle in the Standard Model. This finding strengthens the confirmation of the Higgs boson discovery and sets the stage for further exploration of its properties and potential connections to dark matter.

SourceRice University·JournalNature Physics·DateJun 23, 2014

Searching high and low for dark matter

Researchers have made significant advancements in sensitivity and believe a dark matter particle interacts with ordinary matter rarely, according to conference discussions. The hunt for dark matter continues, with the LHC yet to find evidence of supersymmetry, but potential discovery could reveal dominant form of universe-seeding matter.

Rice researchers part of new LHC discovery

Researchers at Rice University have made a significant contribution to the Large Hadron Collider's (LHC) latest discovery, confirming the Standard Model's prediction of the rare B-sub-s meson decay. This finding eliminates any possibility that the decay is related to dark matter theories, such as supersymmetry.

World's smallest droplets

Researchers at Vanderbilt University have created the world's smallest liquid droplets in a lab experiment. The tiny droplets, about one-100,000th the size of a virus, exhibit flow-like behavior similar to quark-gluon plasma, a state of matter thought to have existed in the universe during its early stages.

SourceVanderbilt University·JournalPhysics Letters B·DateMay 16, 2013