INFN-LNF Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati
A new elementary particle, the Axion, was predicted in the seventies by R.D. Peccei, H. Quinn, S. Weinberg , and F. Wilczek to explain why electric charges distribute homogeneously inside a neutron and don’t form an electric dipole, as happens for instance in a water molecule.
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‘Hairy’ black holes
Every year, the prestigious American Physical Society (APS) issues a list of the most important articles published in the journals the APS is an editor for. For 2016, as one would expect, it was the gravitational waves discovery by the LIGO interferometer that prevailed.
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A brief etymology of particle physics
How did the proton, photon and other particles get their names?
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By Daniel Garisto (Symmetry)
