News tagged with particle physics
Related topics: neutrinos , dark matter , physical review letters , cern , large hadron collider
Pinning Down a Proton: Researchers Develop Method to Describe Binding of Protons and Neutrons
(PhysOrg.com) -- A researcher at North Carolina State University has helped to develop a new method for describing the binding of protons and neutrons within nuclei. This method may improve scientists' ability to predict ...
Apr 14, 2010 |
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Argonne's CARIBU charge breeder breaks world record for efficiency
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory have pushed the limits of charge breeding and broken a long-standing world record for ionization efficiency of solids.
Apr 13, 2010 |
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Nuclear missing link created at last: Superheavy element 117 (Update)
(PhysOrg.com) -- A collaboration of Russian and US physicists has finally created element 117 - a superheavy element made of atoms containing 117 protons that is roughly 40% heavier than lead.
Apr 06, 2010 |
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Einstein equations indicate possibility of black hole formation at the LHC
(PhysOrg.com) -- One of the concerns that has been voiced about the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), is that it could result in the formation of black holes that could destroy the world. While most scientists ...
Apr 06, 2010 |
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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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Italian physicist honoured by European space truck
Europe's third space freighter will be named after Italian physicist Edoardo Amaldi, the European Space Agency (ESA) said on Tuesday.
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Mar 16, 2010 |
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Seeking dark matter on a desktop
Desktop experiments could point the way to dark matter discovery, complementing grand astronomical searches and deep underground observations. According to recent theoretical results, small blocks of matter ...
Mar 15, 2010 |
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Large Hadron Collider set for high speed bash by early April: CERN
The world's most powerful atom smasher will be brought up to unprecedented power by early April, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research said on Wednesday.
Mar 10, 2010 |
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Geneva atom smasher seeks dark matter discoveries
(AP) -- The world's largest atom smasher could generate its first scientific breakthrough later this year when operators hope to make discoveries into the elusive nature of dark matter, the director of the ...
Mar 08, 2010 |
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From two-trillion-degree heat, researchers create new matter -- and new questions
(PhysOrg.com) -- A worldwide team of researchers have for the first time created a particle that is believed to have been in existence immediately after the creation of the universe - the so-called "Big Bang" ...
Mar 04, 2010 |
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Detecting proton collisions at unprecedented levels of energy
(PhysOrg.com) -- CERN has been able to take the first measurements of collisions between the highest-energy particles ever generated. These collisions were performed at CERN's new LHC accelerator and recorded ...
Mar 03, 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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Photons led astray: Investigating the random motion of quantum particles
(PhysOrg.com) -- Life would sometimes be so much easier if we were quantum particles. For example, if we were trying to find our way out of a strange town allowing chance telling us which way to go at every ...
Feb 23, 2010 |
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Life beyond our universe: Physicists explore the possibility of life in universes with laws different from our own
(PhysOrg.com) -- Whether life exists elsewhere in our universe is a longstanding mystery. But for some scientists, there?s another interesting question: could there be life in a universe significantly different ...
Feb 22, 2010 |
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LHC Ready for Duty Again
(PhysOrg.com) -- For the Christmas holiday, the Large Hadron Collider at CERN was shut down for a break and for a little technical tinkering. But next week, the hope is that the LHC will start up again around ...
Feb 21, 2010 |
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