News tagged with parity violation
The universe may have been born spinning, according to new findings on the symmetry of the cosmos
(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists and astronomers have long believed that the universe has mirror symmetry, like a basketball. But recent findings from the University of Michigan suggest that the shape of the Big ...
Jul 08, 2011 |
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Physicists to discuss largest parity violation, other adventures in table-top physics
(PhysOrg.com) -- Exploring the fundamental laws of physics has often required huge accelerators and particles colliding at high energies. But table-top experiments, usually employing exquisitely tuned lasers and sensitive ...
Oct 19, 2010 |
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For One Tiny Instant, Physicists May Have Broken a Law of Nature
(PhysOrg.com) -- For a brief instant, it appears, scientists at Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island recently discovered a law of nature had been broken.
Mar 19, 2010 |
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Ytterbium's broken symmetry: The largest parity violations ever measured in an atom
Ytterbium was discovered in 1878, but until it recently became useful in atomic clocks, the soft metal rarely made the news. Now ytterbium has a new claim to scientific fame. Measurements with ytterbium-174, ...
Jul 22, 2009 |
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Supercomputing the difference between matter and antimatter
(PhysOrg.com) -- An international collaboration of scientists has reported a landmark calculation of the decay process of a kaon into two pions, using breakthrough techniques on some of the world's fastest ...
Mar 29, 2012 |
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'Anti-atomic fingerprint': Physicists manipulate anti-hydrogen atoms for the first time (Update)
The ALPHA collaboration at CERN in Geneva has scored another coup on the antimatter front by performing the first-ever spectroscopic measurements of the internal state of the antihydrogen atom. Their results ...
Mar 07, 2012 |
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Fermilab results add to confidence in explaining less antimatter amounts
(PhysOrg.com) -- The Standard Model of Physics suggests that shortly after the Big Bang there should have been the same amount of antimatter in existence as there was matter. As time passed, both should have ...
Mar 01, 2012 |
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Galaxy sized twist in time pulls violating particles back into line
(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Warwick physicist has produced a galaxy sized solution which explains one of the outstanding puzzles of particle physics, while leaving the door open to the related conundrum ...
Jul 14, 2011 |
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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, ...
Jun 24, 2011 |
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Strange B Meson studies at LHCb provide new tools for discovery
Using data from experiments performed in 2010 at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world's largest particle accelerator near Geneva, Switzerland, scientists are studying rare particle decays that could ...
Mar 29, 2011 |
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New technique for antihydrogen synthesis promises answers to mysteries of antimatter
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at RIKEN, Japan's flagship research institution, have successfully devised the world’s first experimental technique for measuring ground-state hyperfine transitions of antihydrogen. ...
Dec 06, 2010 |
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Antihydrogen trapped for first time (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- In the movie Angels and Demons, scientists have solved one of the most perplexing scientific problems: the capture and storage of antimatter. In real life, trapping atomic antimatter has never ...
Nov 17, 2010 |
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Physics experiment suggests existence of new particle
(PhysOrg.com) -- The results of a high-profile Fermilab physics experiment involving a University of Michigan professor appear to confirm strange 20-year-old findings that poke holes in the standard model, suggesting the ...
Nov 02, 2010 |
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Best yet test of Lorentz invariance
The more crucial a physical law is, the more important it is to keep testing it. One of the most important laws formulated in the last century or so is Albert Einsteinэs principle of invariance, which says that there ...
Oct 25, 2010 |
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