News tagged with energy neutrinos

Research on neutrinos allows the discovery of vortices in the abysses of the eastern Mediterranean

An INFN research project on neutrinos has made it possible to observe for the first time the presence of chains of marine vortices in the Mediterranean at depths of more than 3000 meters, large water structures of diameters ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 16, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Where do the highest-energy cosmic rays come from? Not from gamma-ray bursts, says IceCube study

The IceCube neutrino telescope encompasses a cubic kilometer of clear Antarctic ice under the South Pole, a volume seeded with an array of 5,160 sensitive digital optical modules (DOMs) that precisely track ...

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 18, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (23) | comments 10 | with audio podcast

South Pole Telescope hones in on dark energy, neutrinos

Analysis of data from the 10-meter South Pole Telescope is providing new support for the most widely accepted explanation of dark energy — the source of the mysterious force that is responsible for the ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Apr 02, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (11) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

Budget cuts portend new direction for Fermilab's Long-Baseline Neutrino Experiment

(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists working at Fermilab, the premier particle physics lab in the United States, have been asked to rework their plans for the Long-Baseline Neutrino Experiment (LBNE) in light of current ...

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 27, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 7 | with audio podcast report

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

Borexino Collaboration succeeds in spotting pep neutrinos emitted from the sun

(PhysOrg.com) -- To learn more about how the sun works, scientists study particles that are emitted from it into space due to thermonuclear reactions that occur inside; by applying known physics principles, ...

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

Repulsive gravity as an alternative to dark energy (Part 2: In the quantum vacuum)

(PhysOrg.com) -- During the past few years, CERN physicist Dragan Hajdukovic has been investigating what he thinks may be a widely overlooked part of the cosmos: the quantum vacuum. He suggests that the quantum vacuum has ...

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (77) | comments 143 | with audio podcast report

Test paves way for 15,000-ton neutrino detector

Last month, the preparations for the assembly of the NOvA neutrino detector passed a pivotal test in an assembly building at the Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 13, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The secrets of tunneling through energy barriers

Electrons moving in graphene behave in an unusual way, as demonstrated by 2010 Nobel Prize laureates for physics Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov, who performed transport experiments on this one-carbon-atom-thick material. ...

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 07, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 10

Measuring elusive neutrinos flowing through the Earth, physicists learn more about the sun

Using one of the most sensitive neutrino detectors on the planet, an international team including physicists Laura Cadonati and Andrea Pocar at the University of Massachusetts Amherst are now measuring the flow of solar neutrinos ...

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 07, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (11) | comments 10 | with audio podcast

Major US atom-smasher closes after 25 years (Update)

A powerful US atom-smasher that was the world's biggest particle collider for nearly a quarter-century closed forever on Friday, solidifying Europe's place as the world leader in physics. ...

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 30, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 24

IceCube building goals exceeded at South Pole

(PhysOrg.com) -- As the 2008-09 Antarctic drilling season concludes, the IceCube Neutrino Observatory is on track to be finished as planned in 2011.

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 25, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 1