Particles known as tensor mesons are created when high-energy photons interact. These mesons have now been proposed to have a larger effect on photon behavior than previously thought, and provide a ...

Physicists have discovered that when beams of light interact at the quantum level, they can generate ghost-like particles ...

Scientists have shown that light can interact with itself in bizarre ways—creating ghost-like virtual particles that pop in and out of existence.

The magnetic moment of the muon—a tiny property of a tiny particle—has long puzzled physicists. Experiments and theory haven’t quite matched up, leaving open the thrilling possibility of discovering ...

Scientists work to shed light on Standard Model of particle physics Date: November 5, 2020 Source: DOE/Argonne National Laboratory Summary: Scientists mapped the magnetic field inside a vacuum ...

The Geiger-Marsden experiment, also called the gold foil experiment or the α-particle scattering experiments, refers to a series of early-20th-century experiments that gave physicists their first ...

According to the Standard Model, neutrinos, as uncharged point particles, should have a negligible magnetic dipole moment, some ~20 orders of magnitude less than the electron's dipole moment.

The world’s most sensitive model-independent experiment to search for particularly light particles, of which dark matter might be composed, starts today at DESY in the form of the ‘light ...