{"id":408762,"date":"2026-04-20T19:50:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T19:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/408762\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T19:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T19:50:10","slug":"japanese-researchers-among-winners-of-physics-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/408762\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese researchers among winners of physics prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An international team, including four Japanese researchers, has won the 2026 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics for precisely measuring the magnetic moment of muons, tiny subatomic particles.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement was made on Sunday. Among the Japanese award recipients is Akira Yamamoto, professor emeritus at the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization.<\/p>\n<p>Muons, which have been studied\u00a0since the 1960s, are believed to be key to clarifying phenomena that cannot be explained by standard models of physics.<\/p>\n<p>Yamamoto and his colleagues developed high-performance superconducting magnets used to precisely\u00a0measure\u00a0muons at Brookhaven National Laboratory in the United States. The magnets\u00a0contributed to a significant improvement in measurement accuracy.<\/p>\n<p>The Breakthrough Prize was founded by Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and others to honor outstanding achievement in scientific research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An international team, including four Japanese researchers, has won the 2026 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics for precisely&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":408763,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[179690,6971,179689,61,60,248,82],"class_list":["post-408762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-physics","tag-akira-yamamoto","tag-awards","tag-breakthrough-prize","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-physics","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}