“It makes our lives more difficult in a sense because we have to be able to find the things that matter to us among all these different interactions,” he said. “But it does mean that there is a greater chance of seeing the thing you are looking for.”
Meanwhile, a variety of experiments have revealed potential cracks in the Standard Model — and hinted at a broader and deeper theory of the universe. These findings point to rare behaviors of subatomic particles whose names are unfamiliar to most of us in the cosmic terraces.
take the muon, A subatomic particle became famous for a brief period last year. Muons are often called lipid electrons. They have the same negative electric charge but have a mass 207 times greater. “Who ordered this? Said physicist Isador Rabe when he discovered the muon in 1936.
No one knows where muons are in the grand scheme of things. They are created by cosmic ray collisions and – in collider events – and radioactively decay within microseconds into electrons and ghostly particles called neutrinos.
Last year, a team of about 200 physicists affiliated with the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Illinois reported that Muons orbiting in a magnetic field vibrated more quickly than the standard model predicts.
The discrepancy with theoretical predictions came in the eighth decimal place for a parameter value called g-2, which describes how a particle responds to a magnetic field.