News tagged with nuclear physicist

'Faster-than-light' particles fade after cross-check

Neutrinos do not go faster than light, according to fresh measurements of a test last year that had suggested the particles broke the Universe's speed limit, CERN said on Friday.

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 16, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (31) | comments 50

Hitches emerge as culprit in 'faster-than-light' particle (Update)

Scientists who last year found particles that appeared to break the Universe's speed limit are looking at two technical issues that could have skewed the controversial finding, CERN said Thursday.

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 20

Physicist creates scale model of LHC ATLAS experiment of out LEGO blocks

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Large Hadron Collider at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Switzerland has generated a lot of news of late, e.g. the announcement that a team had found what it believes ...

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 30, 2011 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (17) | comments 19 | with audio podcast report

LHC to narrow search for Higgs boson

Scientists at the world's largest atom smasher have new data that shows with greater certainty where to find a long-sought theoretical particle that would help explain the origins of the universe.

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 08, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 1

Scientists take fresh look at 'faster-than-light' experiment

Scientists who threw down the gauntlet to physics by reporting particles that broke the Universe's speed limit said on Friday they were revisiting their contested experiment.

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 28, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (22) | comments 146

Time reversal: A simple particle could reveal new physics

(PhysOrg.com) -- A simple atomic nucleus could reveal properties associated with the mysterious phenomenon known as time reversal and lead to an explanation for one of the greatest mysteries of physics: the ...

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 11, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (40) | comments 128 | with audio podcast

GE uranium enrichment plans raise fears: report

US conglomerate General Electric is seeking permission to build a $1 billion plant for uranium enrichment by laser, a process which has raised proliferation fears, The New York Times said Sunday.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Aug 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 19

Controversial energy-generating system lacking credibility (w/ video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- It's been seven months since Italian physicists Andrea Rossi and Sergio Focardi publicly demonstrated a device that they claimed could generate large amounts of excess heat through some kind of low-energy ...

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 11, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (29) | comments 161 | with audio podcast weblog

Beam line 13 fuels discovery fever for fundamental physicists

(PhysOrg.com) -- The simplest, most sensible "Big Bang" universe, theoretical physicists believe, would be one in which equal numbers of particles and antiparticles are formed in pairs. As the universe cools, ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jun 24, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Solving the mysteries of astrophysics: Ultracold neutrons

Scientists at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU, Germany) have built what is currently the strongest source of ultracold neutrons. Ultracold neutrons (UCNs) were first generated here five years ago. ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jun 09, 2011 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (5) | comments 3

Large Hadron Collider smashes another record

The world's biggest particle collider set a new record early Monday, a feat that should accelerate the quest to pinpoint the elusive particle known as the Higgs Boson, a senior physicist said.

Physics / General Physics

created May 23, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (27) | comments 39

Physics for safer ports: New technology uses nuclear 'fingerprints' to scan cargo ships

While 700 million travelers undergo TSA's intrusive scans and pat-downs each year, 11 million cargo containers enter American ports with little screening at all. And the volume of those containers, roughly ...

Technology / Engineering

created Apr 29, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Theoretical Man: A Caltech Particle Physicist Comes to Iron Man's Aid

(PhysOrg.com) -- When Iron Man can't do the job, who ya gonna call? Well, how about Caltech theoretical physicist Mark Wise? In Iron Man 2, the blockbuster science-fiction film based on the comic book superhero, ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 24, 2010 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (6) | comments 10 | with audio podcast

French arrest physicist suspected of al-Qaida link

(AP) -- A nuclear physicist working at the world's largest atom smasher has been arrested on suspicion of links to the Algerian branch of al-Qaida, another blow to a project that has been plagued by glitches and was shut ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Oct 09, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0