The Muon g-2 electromagnet at Fermilab, ready to receive a beam of muon particles. This experiment began in 2017 and will take data for a total of 3 years, reducing the uncertainties significantly.

Tessellations aren’t just eye-catching patterns—they can be used to crack complex mathematical problems. By repeatedly ...

R. Dijkgraaf, E. Witten, "Mean field theory, topological field theory, and multi-matrix models," Nuclear Physics B, 342:486-522, 1990. Robert Dijkgraaf (Joseph Henry Laboratories, Princeton University ...

A culinarily challenged amplitudologist decided to bake some cookies. To his horror, he discovered that his baking sheet has spontaneously broken a Z2 symmetry: a formerly flat metal sheet, it would ...

DURING the last twenty years of his tenure of the chair of theoretical physics at Leyden, Prof. Lorentz delivered short courses of lectures analysing—in the incomparable manner we have learnt to ...

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