News tagged with heavy particles
TWINS/IBEX spacecraft observed impact of powerful solar storm from inside and outside Earth's magnetosphere
(PhysOrg.com) -- For the first time, instrumentation aboard two NASA missions operating from complementary vantage points watched as a powerful solar storm spewed a two million-mile-per-hour stream of charged ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 28, 2012 |
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The perfect liquid -- now even more perfect
Ultra hot quark-gluon-plasma, generated by heavy-ion collisions in particle accelerators, is supposed to be the "most perfect fluid" in the world. Previous theories imposed a limit on how "liquid" fluids can ...
Jan 17, 2012 |
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New results about the primordial universe from CERN experiments
(PhysOrg.com) -- The three LHC-experiments (ALICE, ATLAS and CMS), which study lead-collisions have presented their latest results at the international Quark Matter 2011 conference, held in Annecy in France ...
May 25, 2011 |
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Antihelium-4: Physicists nab new record for heaviest antimatter
(PhysOrg.com) -- Members of the international STAR collaboration at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider -- a particle accelerator used to recreate and study conditions of the early universe at the U.S. Department ...
Apr 24, 2011 |
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Physicists observe antihelium-4 nucleus, the heaviest antinucleus yet
(PhysOrg.com) -- In 1932, scientists observed the first antimatter particle, a positron (or antielectron). Since then, scientists have observed heavier and heavier states of antimatter: antiprotons and antineutrons ...
Mar 22, 2011 |
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Unique new probe of proton spin structure at Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider
Scientists hoping to unravel the mystery of proton spin at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), a 2.4-mile-circumference particle accelerator at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven ...
Feb 15, 2011 |
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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.
Oct 07, 2010 |
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Bees helping to monitor air quality at German airports
(PhysOrg.com) -- Air quality around eight airports in Germany is being monitored with the help of bees, whose honey is tested regularly for toxins.
Jul 01, 2010 |
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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 ...
Jun 09, 2010 |
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From two-trillion-degree heat, researchers create new matter -- and new questions
(PhysOrg.com) -- A worldwide team of researchers have for the first time created a particle that is believed to have been in existence immediately after the creation of the universe - the so-called "Big Bang" ...
Mar 04, 2010 |
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'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 ...
Feb 15, 2010 |
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Belle Finds a Hint of New Physics in Extremely Rare B Decays
(PhysOrg.com) -- Quarks, the most fundamental constituents of matters, are classified into six species grouped into three generations as predicted by Professors Kobayashi and Maskawa. The purpose of the B ...
Sep 07, 2009 |
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