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‘Last Hope’ Experiment Finds Evidence for Unknown Particles

Today's long-anticipated announcement by Fermilab's Muon g-2 team appears to solidify a tantalizing conflict between nature and theory. But a separate calculation, published at the same time

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Hasnain says:

This was a really exciting take on some new physics! Well written and super accessible.

"Thus the mystery swirling around muons might lead the way past the Standard Model to a more complete account of the universe after all. However things turn out, it’s safe to say that today’s news — both the result from Fermilab, as well as the publication of the BMW calculation in Nature — is not the end for particle physics."

Also, in accessible comic form from the creator of PhD comics: https://physics.aps.org/articles/v14/47

Posted on 2021-04-08T05:34:31+0000