Norman McCubbin obituary #Science #Physics #NuclearPhysics #normanmccubbin #particlephysics #larguhadroncollider #experimentalphysics #scienceloss

I reconciled gravity & the Standard Model of #ParticlePhysics. I can handle City Hall.
Allow me to introduce The UUniverse Theory.
My unpublished ninth chapter from Black Glitter:
devynstackhouse.ca/devyn/the-uu...
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QGrAT quantum transformer uses Clifford algebra grades for compact jet tagging. Achieves AUC 0.944 with 144 parameters, competitive with classical baseline. Three-particle ancilla improves background rejection from 19.9 to 35.7 at 50% signal efficiency.
Femtoscopic correlations can create quantum entanglement in particle pairs from separable states. We develop a momentum-dependent criterion to identify true emission entanglement from observed spin correlations in Lambda hyperons.
Solar neutrinos can recoil nuclei, creating signals that resemble those sought from WIMPs.
At extreme sensitivity, separating the two becomes harder.
This is the neutrino fog, a frontier rather than a failure. Better methods are needed.
#DarkMatter #Neutrinos #ParticlePhysics #PhysicsExperimental
WIMPs are only one possibility.
Axions, dark photons, sterile neutrinos, and primordial black holes need different strategies and scales of search.
Excluding one candidate does not close the dark matter case. The map is still open.
#ParticlePhysics #Cosmology #TheoreticalPhysics #DarkMatterSearch
Scientists recreate a bizarre quantum effect that stops a particle cold #Science #Physics #QuantumPhysics #oxfordresearch #hybridcomputing #magneticflux #particlephysics
A WIMP may leave no visible track, but a liquid xenon detector can catch two flashes: prompt S1 light and delayed S2 electroluminescence.
Their timing and pattern help reconstruct the event in 3D and classify recoil candidates.
#DarkMatter #ParticlePhysics #DarkMatterDetection #ExperimentalPhysics
What happens when matter meets antimatter
In Quark Forge they annihilate in a blast. In real physics, their mass turns into a burst of light and new particles.
Gluons glue quarks into protons. Here they eat a whole colour
Match five to forge a gluon, then sweep a whole colour off the board. Real physics: gluons carry the strong force between quarks.
About three times in every billion—that's the decay rate the Standard Model predicts. Franco Bedeschi, an Italian physicist from Pisa, appears among the authors who confirmed it. #HistoryOfScience #ParticlePhysics #CERN
Recreate pair production at home, at macro scale!
#physics #quantumphysics #particlephysics #themodesttheory #vortexes #cosmology #science #news
Quantum-information observables of top-quark pair spins enhance sensitivity to invisible dark matter mediators at the LHC, with spin-correlation measurements outperforming conventional rate and kinematic analyses by leveraging angular correlations.
IceCube Neutrino Detector Team Celebrates Nobel Prize Win for Physics Breakthrough
🤖 IA: It's not clickbait ✅
👥 Users: It's not clickbait ✅
#neutrinos #particlephysics #nobleprize
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How do you study unseen particles? Belle II reconstructs one B meson to constrain its partner. Explore FEI, the balance of efficiency and purity, and calibration with real data. No new particle discovery is claimed.
https://note.com/hydezero/n/n6310c004c0db?hl=en
#ParticlePhysics #BelleII
Quarks carry a colour charge… so we made them match-3
The strong force acts on colour charge: red, green and blue. In Quark Forge, matching three pops them.
How can visible particles help us search for invisible matter? CMS combined narrow jets with missing momentum. No significant excess appeared; the data constrain specific dark matter models. A guide to the clues and limits.
https://note.com/hydezero/n/ncb8dc92f41e6?hl=en
#DarkMatter #ParticlePhysics
Researchers propose using quantum-entangled quark pairs from electron-positron collisions to detect anomalous quark dipole moments. By analyzing hadron fragmentation patterns, the method reveals quantum spin correlation changes signaling new physics.
Can a high classifier score guarantee reliable efficiency? Explore Belle II FEI improvements through candidate reconstruction, recoil-mass calibration and decay models. Efficiency, purity and calibration are distinct.
https://note.com/hydezero/n/nb4760a627ceb?hl=en
#BelleII #ParticlePhysics
Why can mesons with the same quark content have different masses? A simple guide to spin and internal energy in D and B mesons. It explains a model study, separating agreement with known data from untested predictions.
https://note.com/hydezero/n/n28c71242cab3?hl=en
#ParticlePhysics #Physics