How quantum weirdness is improving electron microscopes
Quantum weirdness is opening new doors for electron microscopes, powerful tools used for high-resolution imaging.
General Physics
Apr 28, 2022
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News tagged with particle beam
Using pump lasers to create plasma lenses that focus at very high intensity levels
A team of researchers from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the University of California at Berkeley and Princeton University has developed plasma-based techniques to build a lens for laser beams with petawatt-scale ...
Protons are likely smaller than previously believed
A few years ago, a novel measurement technique showed that protons are probably smaller than had been assumed since the 1990s. The discrepancy surprised the scientific community; some researchers even believed that the Standard ...
Quantum Physics
Feb 7, 2022
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CLEAR study paves the way for novel electron-based cancer therapy
There are some cancer tumors that not even surgery, chemotherapy or traditional radiation therapy can cure. These resistant tumors contribute to making the disease one of the main causes of mortality worldwide, but the scientific ...
Optics & Photonics
Jun 10, 2021
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A procedure to directly measure the strength of Landau damping
Landau damping, a phenomenon originally predicted by Lev Landau in 1946, is essential to ensure the collective beam stability in particle accelerators. By precisely measuring the strength of Landau damping, physicists can ...
Learning what makes the nucleus tick
Michigan State University's Witold Nazarewicz has a simple way to describe the complex work he does at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, or FRIB.
General Physics
Apr 9, 2021
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LS2 report: CERN's oldest accelerator awakens
"Synchrotron (PS) is the beating heart of CERN's accelerator system. Situated at the center of the complex, it feeds particle beams not only to the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), but to many of CERN's major facilities, including ...
General Physics
Mar 10, 2021
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Successor of the COMPASS experiment will measure fundamental properties of the proton and its relatives
Protons are one of the main building blocks of the visible universe. Together with neutrons, they make up the nuclei of every atom. Yet, several questions loom about some of the proton's most fundamental properties, such ...
General Physics
Mar 8, 2021
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Particle detector at Fermilab plays crucial role in Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment
A century ago, physicists didn't know about the existence of neutrinos, the most abundant, elusive and ethereal subatomic particles of matter in the universe.
General Physics
Mar 5, 2021
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High energy radiotherapy could 'paint' tumours to avoid harming healthy tissue
A radiotherapy technique which 'paints' tumors by targeting them precisely, and avoiding healthy tissue, has been devised in research led by the University of Strathclyde.
General Physics
Feb 23, 2021
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