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a jumble of Feynman diagrams and coloured shapes with a Bauhaus feel.

#linocut #printmaking #physics #Bauhaus #quantumMechanics #FeynmanDiagram #penguinDiagram #particlePhysics #sciart #WorldQuantumDay

*I am somewhat dubious of this date because a) I was trained to use the metric convention day/month/year and b) physicists use the reduced constant h-bar (that’s h divided by 2 pi) and then, cause it’s easier they just change units such that h-bar = 1 but it’s as good an excuse as any

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Particle accelerator: CERN presents a feasibility study for a LHC successor.

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is currently the largest and most powerful particle accelerator in the world. Groundbreaking discoveries have been made there, such as the detection of the Higgs boson in 2012.

The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) is planning a successor with a circumference of over 90 kilometres.

mediafaro.org/article/20250401

Heise Online · Particle accelerator: CERN presents a feasibility study for a LHC successor.By Werner Pluta

The question of what new particles remain to be discovered drives the work of physicists at the LHC and other particle accelerators. While the discovery of the Higgs boson was monumental, particles could still lie beyond the Standard Model, such as supersymmetric particles, dark matter candidates, or exotic particles that challenge known theories. Each new particle can potentially rewrite our understanding of the universe’s fundamental building blocks. #ParticlePhysics #LHC #CERN

Quarks are fundamental particles thought to be permanently confined within protons, neutrons, and other composite particles. Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) theory suggests that separating quarks requires immense energy, increasing confinement rather than allowing separation. While strong evidence supports that quarks are bound this way, absolute proof is still elusive. If quark confinement were ever disproven, it would challenge our understanding of particle physics. #Quarks #QCD #ParticlePhysics

A curious feature of the Standard Model is that the particles forming ordinary matter—up quarks, down quarks, electrons, and electron neutrinos—each have two heavier copies, known as the second and third generations (e.g., charm and strange quarks, muons). Why do these replicas exist at higher energies if the universe functions predominantly with the lightest generation? The purpose and origin of these “generations” remain unknown. #ParticlePhysics #Mystery #StandardModel