{"id":246009,"date":"2026-10-27T05:41:31","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T10:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/one-positron-cyclotron-could-test-a-key-prediction-of-the-standard-model"},"modified":"2026-10-27T05:41:31","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T10:41:31","slug":"one-positron-cyclotron-could-test-a-key-prediction-of-the-standard-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/one-positron-cyclotron-could-test-a-key-prediction-of-the-standard-model","title":{"rendered":"\u2018One-positron cyclotron\u2019 could test a key prediction of the Standard Model"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The positron is the antimatter counterpart of the electron, identical in mass but carrying an equal and opposite electric charge. Like the electron, it also behaves like a tiny bar magnet, and according to a key prediction of the Standard Model of particle physics, its magnetic moment should be exactly equal and opposite to the electron\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>Through new research <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.aps.org\/prl\/abstract\/10.1103\/gbkc-6nlj\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Physical Review Letters<\/i>, Gerald Gabrielse and colleagues at Northwestern University in Illinois have unveiled a promising new way to test this assumption, by trapping a single positron in a \u201cquantum cyclotron.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The positron is the antimatter counterpart of the electron, identical in mass but carrying an equal and opposite electric charge. Like the electron, it also behaves like a tiny bar magnet, and according to a key prediction of the Standard Model of particle physics, its magnetic moment should be exactly equal and opposite to the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}