{"id":55240,"date":"2021-04-13T14:10:31","date_gmt":"2021-04-13T18:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/?post_type=r_cas_research&#038;p=55240"},"modified":"2021-04-13T14:54:18","modified_gmt":"2021-04-13T18:54:18","slug":"physics-research-discovers-unknown-force","status":"publish","type":"r_cas_research","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/research\/physics-research-discovers-unknown-force\/","title":{"rendered":"Generational Research in Particle Physics"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Muons, Mass, and a Generational Breakthrough in Particle Physics<\/h2>\n<p>Physics Professor<strong> Lee Roberts <\/strong>helped co-found a long-standing experiment through the US Department of Energy\u2019s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory that recently announced what amounts to a generational breakthrough in the field. The experiment now involves over 200 scientists, including several from the CAS Physics Department. By studying muons (naturally occurring particles) as they travel through a magnetic field, they discovered the particles behaving strangely. The muons appeared to be acting beyond what&#8217;s predicted in the Standard Model of physics, a finding that indicates there are hidden particles or forces at work of which scientists are not yet aware. You can read more about this work on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/articles\/2021\/a-physics-breakthrough-more-evidence-of-new-particles-or-forces\/\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/articles\/2021\/a-physics-breakthrough-more-evidence-of-new-particles-or-forces\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>The Brink<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Photo Credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/57514457@N04\/41611099841\">Flickr<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research on muons from the Physics Department indicates there may be unknown basic particles or forces, marking a possible breakthrough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":55244,"template":"","department":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/discovery\/55240"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/discovery"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/r_cas_research"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"r_cas_department","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/department?post=55240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}