Frontpage » Search » quark

Search results for quark

Refine search:    headlines only

Every black hole contains a new universe: A physicist presents a solution to present-day cosmic mysteries

Our universe may exist inside a black hole. This may sound strange, but it could actually be the best explanation of how the universe began, and what we observe today. It's a theory that has been explored ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 18, 2012 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (86) | comments 233 | with audio podcast

Two new excited states of the Lambda-b beauty particle observed by LHCb

In beautiful agreement with the Standard Model, two new excited states of the Λb beauty particle have just been observed by the LHCb Collaboration. Similarly to protons and neutrons, Λb is composed of three qua ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 17, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 5

CMS experiment observes new Xi_b beauty particle

The CMS experiment has submitted a paper for publication describing the first observation of a new, excited beauty baryon known as the Ξ*b0, with a statistical significance of more than 5 standard deviations (5σ) abo ...

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 27, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 2

Supercomputing the difference between matter and antimatter

(PhysOrg.com) -- An international collaboration of scientists has reported a landmark calculation of the decay process of a kaon into two pions, using breakthrough techniques on some of the world's fastest ...

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 29, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (12) | comments 9 | with audio podcast

Neutrons uncover new density waves in fermion liquids

Scientists working at the Institut Laue-Langevin, one of the world's leading centres for neutron science, have carried out the first investigation of two-dimensional fermion liquids using neutron scattering, and discovered ...

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 28, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Dance like a neutrino: Quantum scheme to simulate neutrino oscillations

The behaviour of some of the most elusive particles in the known universe can be simulated using three atoms in a lab, researchers at the Centre for Quantum Technologies (CQT) at the National University of Singapore have ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Mar 21, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 1

Tevatron experiments report latest results in search for Higgs boson

(PhysOrg.com) -- New measurements announced today by scientists from the CDF and DZero collaborations at the Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory indicate that the elusive Higgs ...

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 07, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (15) | comments 17 | with audio podcast

New picture of atomic nucleus emerges

(PhysOrg.com) -- When most of us think of an atom, we think of tiny electrons whizzing around a stationary, dense nucleus composed of protons and neutrons, collectively known as nucleons. A collaboration between ...

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 02, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (29) | comments 14 | with audio podcast

New measurements of W boson mass point to Higgs mass and test Standard Model

(PhysOrg.com) -- The world’s most precise measurement of the mass of the W boson, one of nature’s elementary particles, has been achieved by scientists from the CDF and DZero collaborations at ...

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 02, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (16) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

When matter melts: Physicists map phase changes in quark-gluon plasma

In its infancy, when the universe was a few millionths of a second old, the elemental constituents of matter moved freely in a hot, dense soup of quarks and gluons. As the universe expanded, this quark–gluon ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jun 23, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (14) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Grant advances quark-gluon plasma studies

Rice University's Bonner Nuclear Lab has won a $1.175 million grant that will support its research on high-density and hot nuclear matter.

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 07, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Quarks 'swing' to the tones of random numbers

At the Large Hadron Collider at CERN protons crash into each other at incredibly high energies in order to 'smash' the protons and to study the elementary particles of nature - including quarks. Quarks are ...

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 27, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (12) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Explained: Quark gluon plasma

For a few millionths of a second after the Big Bang, the universe consisted of a hot soup of elementary particles called quarks and gluons. A few microseconds later, those particles began cooling to form protons ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jun 09, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (21) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Masses of common quarks are revealed

(PhysOrg.com) -- A research group co-founded by Cornell physics professor G. Peter Lepage has calculated the mass of the three lightest and, therefore, most elusive quarks: up, down and strange.

Physics / General Physics

created May 03, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (59) | comments 251

'Bubbles' of Broken Symmetry in Quark Soup at RHIC (w/ Video)

Scientists at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), a 2.4-mile-circumference particle accelerator at the U.S. DOE's Brookhaven National Laboratory, report the first hints of profound symmetry transformations ...

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 15, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (25) | comments 9 | with audio podcast