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Article: Beyond the Z: the latest generation of high-powered particle accelerators has produced no real surprises. What's next?
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- Science News
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- September 29, 1990
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Beyond the Z
All seems quiet on the collider front. The first results from a new generation of powerful particle accelerators yield no startling discoveries or glimpses of novel phenomena. For the moment, the quest for the elementary particles of matter has settled into a comfortable routine of steadily accumulating large quantities of valuable but unsurprising data.
So far, those data agree extremely well with expectations based on theoretical calculations and extrapolations from observations at lower energies. The results stand as impressive testimony to how well physicists appear to understand the way fundamental particles of matter interact, as ...