Disillusionment With Academia: Why Leave the Research World?
The beauty of physics research, outside of the publication reviews, conferences, symposiums, and talks, lies in its fundamentality. To describe any phenomenon, whether it be…
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Limits Set: Vector-Like Quark Pair Production
In mid-September of 2022, physicists from the CMS Collaboration at CERN reported new lower limits on vector-like top \((\text{T})\) and bottom \((\text{B})\) quarks. The analysis…
Performance Upgrades: HL-LHC Plans
After physicists at CERN restarted the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) for its Run 3 set of data collection in the summer of 2022, new analyses…
Reaffirming an Anomaly: Baksan Experiment on Sterile Transitions
Experimental data from the Baksan Experiment on Sterile Transitions (BEST) confirms a deficit of electron neutrinos (\(\nu_e\)) observed in previous radiochemical measurement at the SAGE…
Exotic Observations: LHCb Discovers Pentaquark and Tetraquark Pair
On July 05, 2022, collaborators from Tsinghua University (CN), Università degli Studi (IT), and INFN Milano (IT) presented findings at an LHC seminar with new…
LHCb Reports New Observations of CP Asymmetries
New results from the Large Hadron Collider beauty (LHCb) collaboration at CERN were presented at the Rencontres de Moriond Electroweak and a CERN seminar, showing a…