The answer is…The Standard Model.
The Standard Model is a mathematical theory proposed by Sheldon Glashow, Steven Weinberg and Abdus Salam in the latter half of the 20th century to describe fundamental particles and how they interact. It incorporated all that was known about subatomic world at the time and predicted the existence of additional particles as well.
After many years of experiments, and even with the birth of a new era of experiments with the construction of particle colliders like the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the Standard Model has survived to most of the challenges. Its predictions were confirmed to an incredible precision, which makes the Standard Model one of the most succesfull scientific theories in the history of mankind.
We are made of atoms, the basic units of matter. Everything is made out of them, from the simplest rock to the farthest supernova in our Universe. But even being the basic unit of matter, atoms, are hiding something truly astonishing - leptons and quarks, the true building blocks of matter.
Much like our society is organized, these particles came in “families, hierarchies and colours”.
Andrea Caputo, ESR in the UVEG node of Elusives, has been awarded the prestigious Maiani prize from the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei for his Thesis Laurea in Rome. The official ceremony will take place on June 22nd, in which the Italian President Sergio Mattarella will be present. The Elusives Network congratulates and celebrates this important and meritorious Prize of the ESR Andrea Caputo.
The second day of the Neutrino 2018 conference in Heidelberg has started discussing reactor neutrino experiments, with new results from the DAYA BAY, DOUBLE CHOOZ and RENO experiments.
The model which describes the world around us is called “The Standard Model” of particle physics. It includes many particles like the very well know electron, the photon, the Higgs particle (sometimes called The God Particle), the quarks and many more.
The MiniBooNE experiment reports a significant excess of 4.8σ combining events in electron and anti-electron appearance channels, when comparing to the theoretical prediction assuming no neutrino oscillations at short baselines.
Please see document attached. Text by Álvaro Hernández-Cabezudo, Josu Hernández-García, Xabier Marcano, Bruno Martin de la Llama and Olga Mena.
On May 28th the Xenon collaboration simultaneously broadcast multiple lectures detailing the latest result in a ∼ 30 year search for the direct detection of weakly interacting massive particles (also known as WIMPs). This announcement demarcates the first time a direct detection experiment has operated a tonne scale detector for ∼ 1 year – the largest milestone established by the original XENON collaboration nearly twenty years ago.
Please see attached a summary of the recent xenon1T announcemen. Text by Samuel Witte (UVEG ESR)
The Elusives ITN Mid-Term Review Meeting was held in Madrid, on 28 and 29 May 2018.
Throughout the meeting, a short introduction was given by the Research Executive Agency Representative and the Coordinator. Each scientist-in-charge (SiC) presented their research team and described their role within the network.
The implementation of the project in the first two years was described and discussed.
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