Standard Model

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Coined by American physicists Abraham Pais and Sam Treiman in 1975.

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the Standard Model

  1. (particle physics) A theory about the electromagnetic, weak, and strong nuclear interactions that mediate the dynamics of the known subatomic particles.
    • 1977 January 1, Abraham Pais, “Current problems in the weak interactions”, in Symposium on five decades of weak interactions:
      I shall call this the standard model (SM). There is promise that this model is part of the truth.
    • 2021 April 7, Pallab Ghosh, quoting Mark Lancaster, “Muons: 'Strong' evidence found for a new force of nature”, in BBC News‎:
      Prof Mark Lancaster, who is the UK lead for the experiment, told BBC News: "We have found the interaction of muons are not in agreement with the Standard Model [the current widely accepted theory to explain how the building blocks of the Universe behave]."

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