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For several decades, the Standard Model of Elementary Particles (SM) (Fig. 1) has provided a broadly accepted description of our Universe. On the other hand, there has been strong evidence that the ...

A philosopher has put forward an argument for rethinking how particles are defined within the standard model of particle ...

Notoriously ghostly particles called neutrinos may have revealed a crack in our understanding of all the particles and forces in the universe. The standard model of particle physics, which catalogues ...