Chinese physicist hunts for a ghost particle, undeterred by US-China friction


Li Liang is chasing a ghost particle.

For almost a decade, the professor of particle physics at Shanghai Jiao Tong University has given up every summer and winter break to join an international search for an unknown particle that will, in the best-case scenario, make Einstein turn in his grave.

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