Category archives: Particle physics

Exploring new physics at the European Spallation Source using neutrinos

Exploring new physics at the European Spallation Source using neutrinos

DIPC Particle PhysicsParticle physics

By DIPC

Spallation is a type of nuclear reaction in which the interacting nuclei disintegrate into a large number of protons, neutrons and other light particles, rather than exchanging nucleons between them. It is thought that most of the nuclei of light elements, such as boron, are made in this way. Spallation reactions of this type are […]

Methane and the determination of the Majorana nature of neutrinos

Methane and the determination of the Majorana nature of neutrinos

DIPC Particle PhysicsParticle physicsPhysics

By DIPC

Experiments performed in 1909 by Geiger and Marsden, also called Rutherford gold foil experiment because Rutherford was their supervisor, led to the discovery of nuclear structure in the atom: the nucleus of the atom is its central core and contains most of its mass and the nucleus is positively charged. Further research during the next […]

Family unification (2): The SO(18) spinor strikes back

Family unification (2): The SO(18) spinor strikes back

Particle physicsPhysicsTheoretical physics

By Mario Reig

In the previous post, Family unification 1, we reviewed the historical development of Grand Unified Theories (GUT) of force and matter, i.e. Comprehensive Unification. We saw how the SO(18) spinor, 256, is able to accomodate the Standard Model (SM) family structure, however it contains too many families and, also, phenomenologically dangerous mirror families. During the […]

Simulating particle physics in a quantum computer

Simulating particle physics in a quantum computer

Computer scienceParticle physics

By Daniel Manzano

Particle physics is an interesting and complicated field of study. Its theoretical framework, the Standard Model, was developed during the second half of the twentieth century and it opened he possibility to explaining the behavior of the basic blocks of the Universe. It also classified all the particles, from the electron (discovered in 1897) to […]

Nature cares about the direction time flows: T symmetry breaking measured

Nature cares about the direction time flows: T symmetry breaking measured

Particle physicsPhysics

By Mario Herrero-Valea

Back in the decade of 1950, and inspired by the beauty of the formulation of Quantum Electrodynamics, carried out by Feynman among others in the first half of the twentieth century; scientists thought that all physics had to be invariant under three fundamental symmetries that could relate different physical processes between them. These symmetries were […]