After twenty years of confirmation from research done in 2001, it was found that a small subatomic particle is possibly the best theories of scientists on the workings of physics, entitled the Standard Model.
In the Fermilab of the Department of Energy in Batavia, Illinois, scientists sent a jet of muons into a large 50-foot storage ring controlled by superconducting magnets. Muons are about 200 times larger than electrons and occur when cosmic rays hit the earth’s atmosphere.
Muons apparently have an internal wobble magnet, also known as ‘predecessors’, like the axis of a spinning top. The rate of the foregoing is determined by how strong the apparent internal magnet is. The muzzles circulating within the storage ring come into contact with a quantum foam of subatomic particles that appear and disappear, which then decelerates or accelerates. This is called the ‘magnetic moment’, which is ‘represented in equations by a factor called g’, as The New York Times explained.
The standard model must be able to predict the “magnetic moment” with precision, but if additional forces or particles lie within the quantum foam that the standard model cannot explain, the g-factor of the muon is affected.
‘The predecessor experiment at DOE’s Brookhaven National Laboratory, completed in 2001, suggested that the muon’s behavior did not conform to the standard model. “The new measurement of the Muon g-2 experiment at Fermilab is very similar to the value found at Brookhaven and differs from the theory with the most accurate measurement to date,” Fermilab said.
In 2006, the final results of the research were announced to the Brookhaven National Laboratory in 2001, and there was a difference in the prediction of the Standard Model. As Jennifer Ouellette of Ars Technica explained:
The muon’s measured magnetic moment came at a smaller value. Even more interesting, the result is considered a 3.7 sigma effect. (The strength of a signal is determined by the number of standard statistical deviations, or sigmas, from the expected background in the data, which gives a clear ‘bump’. A three-sigma result is a strong tip The gold standard for claiming a discovery is a five-sigma result, similar to throwing 21 heads in a row, for example. )
She continued: ‘That said, three-sigma results, while irritating, are constantly popping up in particle physics, and often disappear as more data is added to the mixture. Therefore, Fermilab revived the Muon g-2 experiment in the hope that it would confirm or refute the disorder once or for all. ”
The latest results are in line with Brookhaven’s results: ‘It increases the statistical significance to 4.2 sigma – it only wobbles on the threshold needed to be discovered’, Ouelette remarked, adding: ‘It means only’ n 1 in is 40,000 chance that it is due to a statistical fluctuation. ”
Chris Polly, a physicist at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory who was a graduate student at Brookhaven and studied the issue for decades, said: ‘This is our Mars Rover landing moment. … After the twenty years that have passed since the Brookhaven experiment ended, it is so gratifying to finally solve this mystery. He added: ‘So far we have analyzed less than 6% of the data that the experiment will eventually collect. Although these first results tell us that there is an interesting difference with the Standard Model, we will in the next few years learn a lot more. ”
Renee Fatemi, a physicist at the University of Kentucky, said: “This is strong evidence that the muon is sensitive to something that is not in our best theory.”
Polly noticed a graph showing the white space where the latest results differ from the standard model, and then said: ‘We can say with fairly high confidence that something should contribute to this white space. What monsters might be hiding there? ”
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