{"id":389201,"date":"2026-04-20T19:37:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T19:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/389201\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T19:37:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T19:37:12","slug":"japanese-researchers-among-winners-of-physics-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/389201\/","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":389202,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[201453,10779,201452,111,139,69,393,147],"class_list":{"0":"post-389201","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-physics","8":"tag-akira-yamamoto","9":"tag-awards","10":"tag-breakthrough-prize","11":"tag-new-zealand","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz","14":"tag-physics","15":"tag-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}