Irish researchers join international team to make a breakthrough in fundamental physics

Irish researchers join international team to make a breakthrough in fundamental physics Dublin, Ireland (SPX) Sep 01, 2016 - An international team of researchers have for the first time, discovered that in a very high magnetic field an electron with no mass can acquire a mass. Understanding why elementary particles e.g. electrons, photons, neutrinos have a mass is a fundamental question in Physics and an area of intense debate. This discovery by Prof Stefano Sanvito, Trinity College Dublin and collaborators in Shangha ... more

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