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
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
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
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
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…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":596315,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[259913,10546,259912,199,79],"class_list":["post-596314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-physics","tag-akira-yamamoto","tag-awards","tag-breakthrough-prize","tag-physics","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=596314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/596315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}