Here we look at what leptons are, how they fit in the Standard Model of particle physics, and their importance in atoms and particle decay.

A particle detector flying above Antarctica has recently caused a stir in the particle physics world after it detected highly ...

Dark matter, although not visible, is believed to make up most of the total mass of the universe. One theory suggests that ...

Meet the heaviest of all the leptons, the Tauon (also known as the Tau Lepton or Tau Particle). The Tau lepton has a mass of 1777 MeV/c^2, to put this lepton into perspective, it is several ...

Mysterious radio signals detected emanating from Antarctica's ice have left particle physicists baffled. The pulses were ...

If you collide a particle with its antiparticle counterpart, they annihilate away, and can produce anything that’s energetically allowed, so long as all the quantum conservation rules — energy ...

B reaking the rules is exciting, especially if they have held for a long time. This is true not just in life but also in particle physics. Here the rule I'm thinking of is called “lepton flavor ...

Nearly a decade ago, a detector searching for ghostly cosmic particles found two anomalous signals in Antarctic ice. But ...

The lepton family also includes a kind of “superlight” particle, called a “neutrino,” that comes in three flavors associated with the other non-quark leptons: tau neutrino, muon neutrino ...

A cosmic particle detector in Antarctica has emitted a series of bizarre signals that defy the current understanding of ...