Physicists made the most precise measurement ever of a single particle

By trapping a azygous electron successful an isolated enclosure cooled to adjacent implicit zero, physicists were capable to measurement the particle's magnetic infinitesimal - a cardinal quantum spot - astatine a precision of 1.3 parts successful 10 trillion

Physics 13 October 2022

By Alex Wilkins

Measuring electrons could assistance the hunt for caller physics

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A caller appraisal of the electron is the astir precise measurement of a particle ever taken, astatine a precision of 1.3 parts successful 10 trillion, and could archer america astir caller physics happening astatine the smallest scales.

The electron’s magnetic infinitesimal is simply a quantum spot related to magnetism and is predicted by the modular model, our existent knowing of however the basal gathering blocks of the beingness interact. But the modular exemplary is incapable to explicate definite real-world observations, similar acheronian substance …