Study supports Standard Model of particle physics, excludes alternative models
Wednesday, October 17, 2018 - 12:01
in Astronomy & Space
In a new study, researchers at Northwestern, Harvard and Yale universities examined the shape of an electron's charge with unprecedented precision to confirm that it is perfectly spherical. A slightly squashed charge could have indicated unknown, hard-to-detect heavy particles in the electron's presence, a discovery that could have upended the global physics community.