News tagged with particle physics
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Quarks 'swing' to the tones of random numbers
At the Large Hadron Collider at CERN protons crash into each other at incredibly high energies in order to 'smash' the protons and to study the elementary particles of nature - including quarks. Quarks are ...
Sep 27, 2010 |
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Quantum physics: Flavors of entanglement
The entanglement of quantum objects can take surprising forms. Quantum physicists at the University of Innsbruck have investigated several flavors of entanglement in four trapped ions and report their results ...
Sep 27, 2010 |
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The dance of hot nanoparticles
(PhysOrg.com) -- "Brownian motion is a very old concept," Klaus Kroy tells PhysOrg.com. "The laws explaining it were formulated more than a century ago by Albert Einstein. However, we are finding some intere ...
Sep 08, 2010 |
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New study suggests researchers can now test the 'theory of everything'
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers describe how to carry out the first experimental test of string theory in a paper published tomorrow in Physical Review Letters.
Sep 01, 2010 |
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Physicists propose quantum refrigerator
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the University of Bristol in the UK have proposed a refrigerator that consists of just a few quantum particles -- qubits.
Sep 01, 2010 |
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Dark-matter search plunges physicists to new depths
This month physicist Juan Collar and his associates are taking their attempt to unmask the secret identity of dark matter into a Canadian mine more than a mile underground.
Aug 11, 2010 |
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Topological insulators take two steps forward
A team of researchers from the Stanford Institute of Materials and Energy Science, a joint institute of the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University, and their international ...
Aug 10, 2010 |
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Molecular light sources sensitive to environment
A Dutch-French team of scientists led by FOM (Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter) researcher Dr Danang Birowosuto and University of Twente researcher Dr Allard Mosk has obtained the first experimental ...
Jul 30, 2010 |
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More accurate than Heisenberg allows? Uncertainty in the presence of a quantum memory
Quantum cryptography is the safest way to encrypt data. It utilizes the fact that transmitted information can only be measured with a strictly limited degree of precision. Scientists at Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich ...
Jul 27, 2010 |
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Conference highlights first results from the Large Hadron Collider
First results from the LHC at CERN are being revealed at ICHEP, the world's largest international conference on particle physics, which has attracted more than 1000 participants to its venue in Paris. The ...
Jul 26, 2010 |
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Fermilab experiments narrow allowed mass range for Higgs boson
(PhysOrg.com) -- New constraints on the elusive Higgs particle are more stringent than ever before. Scientists of the CDF and DZero collider experiments at the U.S. Department of Energy's Fermilab revealed ...
Jul 26, 2010 |
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Does the sun hold a dark secret?
(PhysOrg.com) -- A scientist at Royal Holloway, University of London believes dark matter is lurking at the centre of the sun and cooling down its core temperature.
Jul 21, 2010 |
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Could dark baryons explain dark matter?
(PhysOrg.com) -- "The prevailing belief about dark matter particles is that they should be about 100 or more times heavier than protons," Subir Sarkar tells PhysOrg.com. "However, we were thinking about the possibility of lig ...
Jul 20, 2010 |
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Sun's dark matter trap
The Sun could be the best place to look for dark matter - the invisible ‘stuff’ that is thought to make up about 83% of the matter in the Universe.
Jul 13, 2010 |
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Physicist's blog post rumors Higgs discovery at Fermilab
(PhysOrg.com) -- A rumor that Fermilab’s Tevatron may have discovered evidence of a light Higgs boson wouldn't be the first unsupported speculation from Tommaso Dorigo, a physicist at the University of Padua ...
Jul 13, 2010 |
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