{"id":71500,"date":"2021-05-22T06:10:08","date_gmt":"2021-05-22T10:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/?p=71500"},"modified":"2021-04-26T00:38:53","modified_gmt":"2021-04-26T04:38:53","slug":"scientists-just-discovered-a-major-hole-in-the-standard-model-of-particle-physics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/?p=71500","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Just Discovered a Major \u201cHole\u201d in the Standard Model of Particle Physics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\">The long-awaited results from Fermilab&#8217;s g-2 experiment are finally here&#8230;and they confirm that the Standard Model\u2014you know, the one that aims to explain the forces that shape our universe\u2014may need some major reworking. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mWSYPFWepew\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\">\u00bb Subscribe to Seeker! <\/span><a class=\"yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\" spellcheck=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?event=video_description&amp;redir_token=QUFFLUhqbkNmNnNBNE5BNGJQNTRyN3kwTkQ4MV8zd2dVZ3xBQ3Jtc0trWWJzTVA1MnA2eFpORzVzUlpxdWpfYThfc1BVQUdEX1ZTRlFTRkxqSzlLZFB5bnlOTWVjeEtDUENoS0Y2REdRaVctNHZBOTM4d1dMQk12aGlJR2dtYTMzNktPZS04Z0NvWG5KWWJrRGRoVGZNamNxbw&amp;q=http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2Fsubscribeseeker\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/subscribeseeker<\/a><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\">\u200b<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\">\u00bb Watch more Elements! <\/span><a class=\"yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\" spellcheck=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?event=video_description&amp;redir_token=QUFFLUhqa2lzQl9Lc3FVLTh4dHI1NjV5WTRrQUtWQnNlUXxBQ3Jtc0tuNlpfeWpGdTlIeUgxaURkNlhZUXdfQUgxQnNycWVxZDBwVTBBRFJTSUNjNUVmMElXRkRMSFVFaUdKQV9kd2FFR2NydUw4OHVwcE9BemE3MkxBMXd0YzRsVXlVSFhmQTg1QlV2VmFMSnpfVWpaZDMtbw&amp;q=http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FElementsPlaylist\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/ElementsPlaylist<\/a><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\">\u200b<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\">\u00bb Visit our shop at <\/span><a class=\"yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\" spellcheck=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?event=video_description&amp;redir_token=QUFFLUhqbmVDUmFmdEZ4aDdFdXhDWXZNRDlNdV9jZWc3UXxBQ3Jtc0tuRUwxenJtam9DeGJNdDdqTzZRNTlJS3dMV0U0bGVLdWlvclJzQVFqLWxNd1FRWEdzSk82Zl84RFNLZ0x3b0lnLUtCcGtLdEdSSDR6c1oxUUlNRmxHMlNvM0dKUWR0ajk4V0V3N1pKQzJOVmgxRGRBTQ&amp;q=http%3A%2F%2Fshop.seeker.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">http:\/\/shop.seeker.com<\/a><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\">\u200b<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\">The muon is one of 12 elementary particles described by the Standard Model. This model aims to understand how each of these particles is affected by the universe\u2019s four known forces\u2014the strong, weak, gravitational, and electromagnetic. These twelve particles are divided into quarks and leptons, which are each further divided into six distinct \u201cflavors.\u201d Like electrons, muons are just one \u201cflavor\u201d of leptons. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\">They also spin like a top and have a negative charge, meaning they\u2019re able to generate their own magnetic field. So, when a muon\u2019s internal \u201cmagnet\u201d is exposed to a strong external magnetic field\u2014like one produced by, say, a particle accelerator\u2014the muon starts to wobble. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\">The rate of this wobble is what physicists call its \u201cg-factor,\u201d or magnetic moment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\">Read More: <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\">First results from Fermilab\u2019s Muon g-2 experiment strengthen evidence of new physics <\/span><a class=\"yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\" spellcheck=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?event=video_description&amp;redir_token=QUFFLUhqbmlabzM2ODM4QXdUd0thSGpjbVRYdnJGM3Zyd3xBQ3Jtc0trTE56V1N4cHF1cy13NzItclpqc2t4djhvN21mVWo2UWxCRnFMY0g0a014YW1KNzJkQnZuM05TRHhlSW5WSWhkamdlV0JTVy1NOXpTVDJGSmlIUlREMGw0NS1fV2NRMjZsYjNVU2hhSy1TVjV5c0ZpSQ&amp;q=https%3A%2F%2Fnews.fnal.gov%2F2021%2F04%2Ffirst-results-from-fermilabs-muon-g-2-experiment-strengthen-evidence-of-new-physics%2F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/news.fnal.gov\/2021\/04\/first-r&#8230;<\/a><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\">\u200b<\/span><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\"> &#8220;The strong evidence that muons deviate from the Standard Model calculation might hint at exciting new physics. Muons act as a window into the subatomic world and could be interacting with yet undiscovered particles or forces.&#8221; <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\">&#8220;Last Hope\u2019 Experiment Finds Evidence for Unknown Particles&#8221; <\/span><a class=\"yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\" spellcheck=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?event=video_description&amp;redir_token=QUFFLUhqa0ZvZlJfaVVQSnVEbmlaYXI4Q09qQm5kaF9Yd3xBQ3Jtc0ttR2xpdG1OOUxBSERoSE5HdVh4YU4tOVZuSWVEM1cwck52cEROM253b1I0OE9qeWpoRndBazdEZWpUTEtjSGVYM2c4M25hVGFkbW9RekI0a3BKVkpCd2pUNVpyRlh3ZEY3czJYVzc2YkdWd1BwVTh3WQ&amp;q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.quantamagazine.org%2Fmuon-g-2-experiment-at-fermilab-finds-hint-of-new-particles-20210407\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/www.quantamagazine.org\/muon-g&#8230;<\/a><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\">\u200b<\/span><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\"> &#8220;However, even as many particle physicists are likely to be celebrating \u2014 and racing to propose new ideas that could explain the discrepancy \u2014 a paper published today in the journal Nature casts the new muon measurement in dramatically duller light. The paper&#8230;suggests that the muon\u2019s measured wobbliness is exactly what the Standard Model predicts.&#8221; <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\">A Tiny Particle\u2019s Wobble Could Upend the Known Laws of Physics <\/span><a class=\"yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\" spellcheck=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?event=video_description&amp;redir_token=QUFFLUhqa29BVXVERjlNNzg1TnFxM3J2T3J2dzR0YnVtUXxBQ3Jtc0tsNXhXaGdaaFNLZUhwVnNJMzZHekZoVklzNUFLMjFuTHdYcTE4V2tSRGstUk5sMjZ2MnZjeFotNkNyN0RLWVpxT0pTLXFGS1JrU0hOOHlYeHNaOUhic0J3dmdVSmVvMU81WmFwakh4ZXZBMlRBSVZ4RQ&amp;q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2021%2F04%2F07%2Fscience%2Fparticle-physics-muon-fermilab-brookhaven.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/04\/07\/sc&#8230;<\/a><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\">\u200b<\/span><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\"> &#8220;The results, the first from an experiment called Muon g-2, agreed with similar experiments at the Brookhaven National Laboratory in 2001 that have teased physicists ever since.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The long-awaited results from Fermilab&#8217;s g-2 experiment are finally here&#8230;and they confirm that the Standard Model\u2014you know, the one that aims to explain the forces that shape our universe\u2014may need some major reworking. \u00bb Subscribe to Seeker! http:\/\/bit.ly\/subscribeseeker\u200b \u00bb Watch more Elements! http:\/\/bit.ly\/ElementsPlaylist\u200b \u00bb Visit our shop at http:\/\/shop.seeker.com\u200b The muon is one of 12 elementary particles described by the Standard Model. This model aims to understand how each of these particles is affected by the universe\u2019s four known forces\u2014the strong, weak, gravitational, and electromagnetic. These twelve particles are divided into quarks and leptons, which are each further divided into six distinct \u201cflavors.\u201d Like electrons, muons are just one \u201cflavor\u201d of leptons. They also spin like a top and have a negative charge, meaning they\u2019re able to generate their own magnetic field. So, when a muon\u2019s internal \u201cmagnet\u201d is exposed to a strong external magnetic field\u2014like one produced by, say, a particle accelerator\u2014the muon starts to wobble. The rate of this wobble is what physicists call its \u201cg-factor,\u201d or magnetic moment. Read More: First results from Fermilab\u2019s Muon g-2 experiment strengthen evidence of new physics https:\/\/news.fnal.gov\/2021\/04\/first-r&#8230;\u200b &#8220;The strong evidence that muons deviate from the Standard Model calculation might hint at exciting new physics. Muons act as a window into the subatomic world and could be interacting with yet undiscovered particles or forces.&#8221; &#8220;Last Hope\u2019 Experiment Finds Evidence for Unknown Particles&#8221; https:\/\/www.quantamagazine.org\/muon-g&#8230;\u200b &#8220;However, even as many particle physicists are likely to be celebrating \u2014 and racing to propose new ideas that could explain the discrepancy \u2014 a paper published today in the journal Nature casts the new muon measurement in dramatically duller light. The paper&#8230;suggests that the muon\u2019s measured wobbliness is exactly what the Standard Model predicts.&#8221; A Tiny Particle\u2019s Wobble Could Upend the Known Laws of Physics https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/04\/07\/sc&#8230;\u200b &#8220;The results, the first from an experiment called Muon g-2, agreed with similar experiments at the Brookhaven National Laboratory in 2001 that have teased physicists ever since.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":8539,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[127],"tags":[97,551,1302],"class_list":["post-71500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-edu","tag-education","tag-education-saturday","tag-seeker"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71500"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71501,"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71500\/revisions\/71501"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}