{"id":3074,"date":"2026-07-29T14:53:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T14:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/futurenews24.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/29\/physicists-solve-a-muon-mystery-now-old-results-dont-add-up-20260729\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T23:59:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T23:59:07","slug":"physicists-solve-a-muon-mystery-now-old-results-dont-add-up-20260729","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futurenews24.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/29\/physicists-solve-a-muon-mystery-now-old-results-dont-add-up-20260729\/","title":{"rendered":"Physicists Remedy a Muon Thriller. Now, Outdated Outcomes Don\u2019t Add Up."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>At first, their predictions have been 10 occasions fuzzier than data-driven inferences. Low-energy particles are likely to unfold out, so capturing their attainable positions requires utilizing an enormous lattice. Excessive-energy particles want a relatively smaller grid, however one with an especially positive mesh. \u201cAgain then, it was unimaginable that sooner or later lattice would attain the identical precision\u201d because the data-driven methodology, stated Kalman Szabo, a professor at Wuppertal who was concerned within the effort.<\/p>\n<p>It took a decade of growing intelligent computational strategies \u2014 and ready for elevated computing energy \u2014 for the BMW group to wrangle grids that have been each sufficiently huge and sufficiently detailed. However wrangle them they did. In 2021, on the identical day that Fermilab launched its up to date muon g\u20132 measurement, the BMW group\u2019s outcome appeared within the journal Nature.<\/p>\n<p>In keeping with the BMW group\u2019s lattice calculation, Fermilab\u2019s muons have been wobbling precisely as they need to. Since then, unbiased lattice teams have revealed matching calculations.<\/p>\n<p>At this time, many physicists imagine the muon thriller is not any extra: In keeping with the lattice simulations, the muon\u2019s additional wobble may be defined totally by the emission and reabsorption of recognized particles obeying the recognized legal guidelines of the recognized forces.<\/p>\n<p>So why does the data-driven methodology point out in any other case?<\/p>\n<h2>Inconsistent Experiments <\/h2>\n<p>To determine what\u2019s occurring, physicists are drilling into the electron-positron collisions driving the data-driven methodology. These collisions are alleged to be a direct window into quark habits, however calculations primarily based on this knowledge disagree with each the newest experimental outcomes and BMW\u2019s prediction. So what\u2019s actually occurring within the aftermath of these collisions?<\/p>\n<p>Within the metropolis of Novosibirsk in southern Siberia, the VEPP-2000 collider has been crashing electrons into positrons on and off because the flip of the millennium. It\u2019s a comparatively mild collider, working at 6,000 occasions decrease vitality than CERN\u2019s Giant Hadron Collider, close to Geneva.<\/p>\n<p>The VEPP-2000 options two detectors that exactly rely how usually sure bundles of quarks, often known as pions, come out of the electron-positron crashes \u2014 knowledge that physicists have been utilizing to deduce how a lot the robust drive was messing with muons.<\/p>\n<p>In 2010, physicists put in a very new detector. They then used it to extra exactly measure this pion manufacturing <span draggable=\"true\">charge<\/span>, which they revealed in 2023. After the refresh, they discovered that the speed modified considerably.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"mb1 mt1 image--shortcode s:mb-0 s:mt-7-5 \">\n<div class=\"relative image mx0\">\n        <img width=\"2122\" height=\"1453\" src=\"https:\/\/www.quantamagazine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Fedor-Ignatov-cr-TK-copy.webp\" class=\"block fit-x fill-h fill-v is-loaded mxa\" alt=\"A man wearing a plaid shirt stands outside, in front of a mountain slope meeting the water.\" decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.quantamagazine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Fedor-Ignatov-cr-TK-copy.webp 2122w, https:\/\/www.quantamagazine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Fedor-Ignatov-cr-TK-copy-1720x1178.webp 1720w, https:\/\/www.quantamagazine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Fedor-Ignatov-cr-TK-copy-520x356.webp 520w, https:\/\/www.quantamagazine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Fedor-Ignatov-cr-TK-copy-768x526.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.quantamagazine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Fedor-Ignatov-cr-TK-copy-1536x1052.webp 1536w, https:\/\/www.quantamagazine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Fedor-Ignatov-cr-TK-copy-2048x1402.webp 2048w, https:\/\/www.quantamagazine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Fedor-Ignatov-cr-TK-copy-98x67.webp 98w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2122px) 100vw, 2122px\"\/>    <\/div><figcaption class=\"image__meta mt1\">\n<div class=\"caption wysiwyg h5 theme__anchors--solid fill-h post__aside__caption post__aside__caption--shortcode\">\n<p>Fedor Ignatov, a physicist on the College of Liverpool within the UK, was a member of the crew that measured a mysterious new charge of pion manufacturing on the VEPP-2000 collider.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"attribution theme__anchors--solid wysiwyg pangram h6 mb1 fill-h post__aside__attribution\">\n<p>Courtesy of Fedor Ignatov<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cIt was a shock. Nobody anticipated it to be like that,\u201d stated Fedor Ignatov, a physicist on the College of Liverpool within the UK and member of the crew.<\/p>\n<p>Physicists had seen faint hints that one thing unusual was occurring with the pion charge. They seen that measurements of it from experiments in Italy and america have been beginning to drift aside. However the dramatic divergence of the brand new measurement from the detector\u2019s personal previous outcomes, together with the collaboration\u2019s declare of excessive precision, made the scenario exhausting to disregard.<\/p>\n<p>Physicists have pored over the outcome. \u201cNo measurement has been scrutinized extra,\u201d Keshavarzi stated. To date, no issues have been discovered.<\/p>\n<p>Current lattice-based simulations align with the newly measured charge. And preliminary knowledge from the opposite detector on the VEPP-2000 collider additionally appear to match. In the meantime, a 2023 evaluation of knowledge collected earlier at yet one more experiment at a collider, BABAR in California, sits in hanging settlement with the older charge.<\/p>\n<p>All of this leaves physicists questioning what\u2019s actually occurring in all these collider experiments. The discrepancies level both to indicators of unknown particles meddling with the quarks, or to neglected particulars producing the mistaken impression that quarks are misbehaving. Both approach, particle physicists can\u2019t relaxation till they&#8217;ve solved the brand new electron-positron thriller, and discovered whether or not the outdated pion charge, or the brand new pion charge, is the correct one.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are 4 a long time of measurements that preceded that, that have been all finished in numerous methods, that have been all finished by totally different individuals, that have been all finished by totally different experiments, that every one paint a very totally different image,\u201d Keshavarzi stated. \u201cThere&#8217;s a lot nonetheless left to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Correction: July 30, 2026The authentic model of this text said that the BMW group carried out simulations that immediately predict the brand new pion charge. BMW\u2019s calculations help the brand new charge, however solely not directly. Different lattice teams have extra immediately gone after the pion charge.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.quantamagazine.org\/physicists-solve-a-muon-mystery-now-old-results-dont-add-up-20260729\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At first, their predictions have been 10 occasions fuzzier than data-driven inferences. Low-energy particles are likely to unfold out, so capturing their attainable positions requires utilizing an enormous lattice. 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