News tagged with physics letters b

Gravity Probe B confirms two Einstein theories

(PhysOrg.com) -- Stanford and NASA researchers have confirmed two predictions of Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity, concluding one of the space agency's longest-running projects.

Physics / General Physics

created May 04, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (27) | comments 86 | with audio podcast

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 ...

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 29, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Physicists first to observe rare particles produced at the Large Hadron Collider

Shortly after experiments on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the CERN laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland began yielding scientific data last fall, a group of scientists led by a Syracuse University physicist became the ...

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 28, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (10) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

Our universe at home within a larger universe? So suggests wormhole research

(PhysOrg.com) -- Could our universe be located within the interior of a wormhole which itself is part of a black hole that lies within a much larger universe?

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 06, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (81) | comments 77 | with audio podcast




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The neutrinophone: It's not for you. (But it is cool)

First of all, the neutrinophone isn’t really a phone. It has the potential to be used for communication across immense distances—including into outer space—but even Jeff Nelson says the neutrinophone’s ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 24, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (7) | comments 0

New process improves catalytic rate of enzymes by 3,000 percent

Light of specific wavelengths can be used to boost an enzyme's function by as much as 30 fold, potentially establishing a path to less expensive biofuels, detergents and a host of other products.

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Apr 17, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (13) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

LHCb experiment squeezes the space for expected new physics

(PhysOrg.com) -- Results presented by the LHCb collaboration this evening at the annual ‘Rencontres de Moriond’ conference, held this year in La Thuile, Italy, have put one of the most stringent limits to date on ...

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 06, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers build first physical 'metatronic' circuit

(PhysOrg.com) -- The technological world of the 21st century owes a tremendous amount to advances in electrical engineering, specifically, the ability to finely control the flow of electrical charges using ...

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 22, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (27) | comments 12 | with audio podcast

Hints of the Higgs - papers are submitted

Back in December 2011, the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN presented some exciting results that provided tantalising hints of the Higgs boson.

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 08, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (9) | comments 10

Belle discovers new heavy 'exotic hadrons'

(PhysOrg.com) -- Two unexpected new hadrons containing bottom quarks have been discovered by the Belle Experiment using the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK)'s B Factory (KEKB), a highly-luminous, ...

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created Jan 10, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (8) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Pions don't want to decay into faster-than-light neutrinos, study finds

When an international collaboration of physicists came up with a result that punched a hole in Einstein's theory of special relativity and couldn't find any mistakes in their work, they asked the world to ...

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 23, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (35) | comments 170 | with audio podcast

Charming surprise: First evidence for CP violation in charm decays

The LHCb Collaboration has presented today at the Hadron Collider Particle Symposium in Paris possible first evidence for CP violation, the difference between behaviour of matter (particles) and antimatter ...

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created Nov 15, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (12) | comments 20 | with audio podcast

Shedding new light on supernova mystery

(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists have a new theory on the mysterious mechanism that causes the explosion of massive, or core, stars. These ‘Type II supernovae’, the term given to exploding core stars, ...

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created Nov 08, 2011 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (4) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

A 2-dimensional electron liquid solidifies in a magnetic field

Physicists from the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a theory that describes, in a unified manner, the coexistence of liquid and pinned solid phases of electrons in two dimensions under the influence ...

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created Nov 04, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast


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