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https://newatlas.com/angel-particle-own-antiparticle/50579/
Scientists discover "angel particle"
Michael Irving . . . . "Our team predicted exactly where to find the Majorana fermion and what to look for as its 'smoking gun' experimental signature," says Shoucheng Zhang, one of the senior authors of the research paper. "This discovery concludes one of the most intensive searches in fundamental physics, which spanned exactly 80 years." . . . . Zhang proposes that the team's discovery be named the "angel particle" after the Dan Brown novel Angels and Demons , which features a bomb powered by the meeting of matter and antimatter. In the long run, Majoranas could find practical application in making quantum computers more secure. The research was published in the journal Science . . . . |
See as well Stanford News yesterday —
Shoucheng Zhang … died on Dec. 1. He was 55.
Zhang’s death was unexpected and followed
a “battle with depression,” according to his family.