muons

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Is the Higgs boson doing its job?

12 min read
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At the heart of particle physics lies the Standard Model, a theory that has stood for nearly half a century as the best description of the subatomic realm. It tells us what particles exist, how they i…

Technical foundation for a muon collider laid at J-PARC

7 min read
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Featured image: All matter around us is made of elementary particles, the building blocks of matter. These particles occur in two basic types called quarks and leptons. Each group consists of six part…

Technical foundation for a muon collider laid at J-PARC

7 min read
Scicomm Science electron-positron collider ionisation laser J-PARC Large Hadron Collider linear collider muon collider muons proton-proton collider radiofrequency cavity radiofrequency quadrupole synchrotron radiation thermal energy transverse emittance

A particle collider is a machine that energises two beams of subatomic particles and smashes them head on. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Europe is the world's largest and most famous particl…