News tagged with linear collider detector

Silicon Detector Validated, Moves Forward

(PhysOrg.com) -- Two of the three detector design concepts for the proposed next linear collider have been validated by the International Detector Advisory Group, and their conclusions endorsed by the International ...

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created Sep 14, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0




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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 ...

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

Jetting into the Quark-Gluon Plasma

After the quark-gluon plasma filled the universe for a few millionths of a second after the big bang, it was over 13 billion years until experimenters managed to recreate the extraordinarily hot, dense medium ...

Physics / Plasma Physics

created Jan 15, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (24) | comments 9 | with audio podcast

PEP-II Delivers Half an Inverse Attobarn to BaBar, With More to Come

Thanks to a steady push during the course of eight years, the PEP-II accelerator has now delivered double the amount of data originally expected when the BaBar experiment first started up in May of 1999.

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created Oct 03, 2007 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (7) | comments 0

LCLS Beam Already in Action

The Near and Far Experimental halls are still under construction, but already scientists are putting the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) beam to use. The LCLS electron beam, first generated in April, is ...

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created Aug 06, 2007 | popularity 4 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Laser Acceleration of Electrons Excites Physicists

A new experiment aims to accelerate electrons using dark red light.

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created Apr 20, 2007 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (16) | comments 0

Iowa State physicist leads team designing detector for international particle collider

John Hauptman stood before an international gathering of particle physicists and announced he had another idea. One that was different. One that was simpler. And best of all, one that he was sure would work.

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created Apr 13, 2007 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (15) | comments 0

New form of matter-antimatter transformation observed for first time

For the first time, scientists of the BaBar experiment at the Department of Energy's Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) have observed the transition of one type of particle, the neutral D-meson, into ...

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created Mar 13, 2007 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (67) | comments 0

ILC Physics: The Analysis Has Already Begun

For the proposed International Linear Collider, physicists are trying to both design the most precise calorimeter ever and still be able to afford it. A calorimeter measures the energy of particles in a detector, ...

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created Feb 12, 2007 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Viewing the Future: ILC Simulations

Even though it will still be several years before the International Linear Collider (ILC) comes online, scientists have already conducted millions of collision experiments, using detectors that have not been ...

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created Jan 31, 2007 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

What Will GLAST Tell Us?

The identity of dark matter—the mysterious stuff that makes up a quarter of the universe—continues to elude scientists, even decades after they first inferred its existence. The leading candidate that might ...

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created Jan 23, 2007 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (21) | comments 0


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