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Sebastian Mizera just joined the physics department as an assistant professor, researching quantum field theory.

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George Fitzgerald Smoot III, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist whose experiments about space provided some of the most convincing evidence that the universe began with a Big Bang, died on Sept. 18 in ...

ABSTRACT: Evidence suggests the existence of a second neutral pion based on: (1) the anomalous branching ratios in the reactions p ¯ p→ππ and p ¯ d→ππN , and (2) the 1960s findings of Tsai-Chü et al.