The cold, dark secrets of the Universe in few-body physics

The AMO physics group at Stony Brook University uses few-body physics, cold and ultracold chemistry as well as machine learning to study fundamental problems in the research field.

Understanding fundamental processes in physics, particularly physics beyond the Standard Model, is no easy task. Experiments and theories looking for new general theories to describe many of the phenomena that are missing in the Standard Model focus on particle physics experiments at places like CERN. Professor Jesús Pérez Ríos of the atomic, molecular, and optical (AMO) physics group at Stony […]

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What can Occam’s razor principle tell us about theories of dark matter?

Professor Oks compares the dark matter theory, based on the second flavour of hydrogen atoms, with other theories.

Today, physicists have devised dozens of theories to explain the nature of dark matter. So far, however, not one of them has gained concrete proof through experiments. To narrow these theories down, Professor Eugene Oks at Auburn University, USA, advocates applying an important philosophical concept, which is often used when considering complex problems with many candidate solutions. Using Occam’s razor, […]

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The Future Circular Collider: Its potential and lessons learnt from the LEP and LHC experiments

Stephen Myers reviews the lessons learnt from the LEP experiments, ahead of the Future Circular Collider (FCC) programme which will aid researchers in particle physics

As researchers seek to learn more about the fundamental nature of our universe, new generations of particle accelerators are now in development in which beams of particles collide ever more precisely and at ever higher energies. Professor Stephen Myers, former Director of Accelerators & Technology at CERN and currently Executive Chair of ADAM SA, identifies both the positive and negative […]

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