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Physicists Use Underground Lab to Detect Rare Particles, Peek into Earth's Center
(PhysOrg.com) -- Using a delicate instrument located under a mountain in central Italy, two University of Massachusetts Amherst physicists are measuring some of the faintest and rarest particles ever detected, geo-neutrinos, ...
Mar 26, 2010 |
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Borexino experiment detects geo-neutrinos
(PhysOrg.com) -- The Borexino collaboration of about 80 scientists from six countries, who have been working with a detector buried 1.5 km beneath the Gran Sasso mountain near l'Aquila in Italy have detected ...
Mar 16, 2010 |
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The First T2K Neutrino Event Observed At Super-Kamiokande
(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists from the Japanese-led multinational T2K collaboration announced today that they had made the first detection of a neutrino which had travelled all the way under Japan from their ...
Feb 25, 2010 |
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CDF and D0 joint paper puts a further squeeze on the Higgs
Almost a decade after the experiments at CERN’s Large Electron-Positron (LEP) collider set a limit on the mass of the Higgs boson of 114.4 GeV/c2, the two experiments at Fermilab’s Tevatron, CDF and D0 have ...
Feb 24, 2010 |
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New results confirm standard neutrino theory
(PhysOrg.com) -- In its search for a better understanding of the mysterious neutrinos, a group of experimenters at DOE’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory has announced results that confirm the theory ...
Feb 16, 2010 |
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Stalking the Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay
(PhysOrg.com) -- The hunt for the elusive neutrino mass has officially begun. This difficult-to-detect elementary particle travels close to the speed of light, is electrically neutral, and can pass through ...
Feb 12, 2010 |
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Researchers Detect First Neutrino Events at T2K Facilities in Japan
(PhysOrg.com) -- Louisiana State University researchers, including graduate and undergraduate students, have been working for several years on an experiment in Japan called T2K, short for Tokai to Kamioka ...
Jan 19, 2010 |
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Queen Mary scientists shed light on a mysterious particle
(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists at Queen Mary, University of London have begun looking deep into the Earth to study some of nature's weirdest particles; neutrinos.
Dec 14, 2009 |
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First Neutrino Events Observed at T2K Near Detector
(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists from the Japanese-led multi-national T2K neutrino collaboration announced today that over the weekend they detected the first events generated by their newly built neutrino beam ...
Nov 24, 2009 |
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Grant to Design Neutrino Detector
(PhysOrg.com) -- A consortium led by UC Davis physics professor Robert Svoboda will design the world's largest neutrino detector under a $4.4 million contract recently awarded by the National Science Foundation.
Oct 14, 2009 |
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Invading black holes explain cosmic flashes
(PhysOrg.com) -- Black holes are invading stars, providing a radical explanation to bright flashes in the universe that are one of the biggest mysteries in astronomy today.
Sep 18, 2009 |
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Has PAMELA Already Seen Dark Matter?
(PhysOrg.com) -- Back in 2006, PAMELA (a Payload for Antimatter Matter Exploration and Light-nuclei Astrophysics) was launched with the purpose of detecting cosmic radiation and looking for clues pointing ...
Aug 25, 2009 |
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'Big crunch' or another 'Big Bang?'
Will the universe expand outward for all of eternity and end in a vast, dark, cold, sterile, diffuse nothingness? Or will the “Big Bang” — the gargantuan explosion that formed the universe 14 billion years ...
Aug 16, 2009 |
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Work begins on world's deepest underground lab
(AP) -- Far below the Black Hills of South Dakota, crews are building the world's deepest underground science lab at a depth equivalent to more than six Empire State buildings - a place uniquely suited to ...
Jun 22, 2009 |
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Officials break ground for the world's most advanced neutrino experiment
(PhysOrg.com) -- Construction begins this month on a cutting-edge physics laboratory in northern Minnesota, supported by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Congressman James Oberstar of Minnesota ...
May 01, 2009 |
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