News tagged with proton beam

Large Hadron Collider reaches record 1380 proton bunches per beam

In just two weeks of operation in "stable beams" mode, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has aready reached 1380 proton bunches per beam, the maximum value set for this year. The number of bunches was increased ...

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 19, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (10) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Proton beam experiments open new areas of research

By focusing proton beams using high-intensity lasers, a team of scientists have discovered a new way to heat material and create new states of matter in the laboratory.

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 05, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Contested 'faster-than-light' experiment yields results

A fiercely contested experiment that appears to show the accepted speed limit of the Universe can be broken has yielded the same results in a re-run, European physicists said.

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 18, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (37) | comments 123

Scientists take fresh look at 'faster-than-light' experiment

Scientists who threw down the gauntlet to physics by reporting particles that broke the Universe's speed limit said on Friday they were revisiting their contested experiment.

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 28, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (22) | comments 146

Applying particle physics expertise to cancer therapy

(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists at the University of California, Santa Cruz, are working with medical researchers at Loma Linda University Medical Center to develop a new imaging technology to guide proton therapy ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 13, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Weak nuclear force is less weak

The force that governs some of the reactions that keep our sun shining is not quite as weak as scientists had previously thought. As a consequence, our estimation of how energetic the sun actually is just ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 13, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (22) | comments 58 | with audio podcast

A flow of heavy-ion results from the Large Hadron Collider

The Large Hadron Collider shut down its proton beams on Nov. 4, 2010, and quickly began circulating beams of lead ions, a run scheduled to last a month. Within days, the first results from ALICE, the LHC experiment ...

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 08, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (15) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Proton therapy safe, effective for early-stage lung cancer patients

Proton beam therapy is safe and effective and may be superior to other conventional treatments for Stage I inoperable non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients, according to a study in the October issue of the International Jo ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Oct 19, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The promise of ion beam cancer therapy

For certain kinds of cancer, the most effective therapy does not use x-rays or gamma rays but beams of ions, the electrically charged cores of atoms, including hydrogen ions (protons) and heavier ions such ...

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 19, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Shutting Off the Large Hadron Collider

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Physics / General Physics

created Jul 15, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (15) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Scientists track electrons in molecules

(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists in Europe have successfully glimpsed the motion of electrons in molecules. The results are a major boon for the research world. Knowing how electrons move within molecules will ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jun 13, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (18) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Physicists to send highest-intensity neutrino beam from Illinois to South Dakota

(PhysOrg.com) -- The world's highest-intensity neutrino beam starts in Illinois and heads straight through the earth all the way to South Dakota. What does that have to do with Brookhaven National Lab on Long ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jun 09, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Atom smasher will help reveal 'the beginning'

The world's largest atom smasher threw together minuscule particles racing at unheard of speeds in conditions simulating those just after the Big Bang - a success that kick-started a megabillion-dollar experiment ...

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 31, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (14) | comments 53

Proton beam therapy shows encouraging long-term outcome for patients with locally advanced sinonasal cancers

Proton beam radiation therapy shows encouraging results for patients with locally advanced sinonasal malignancies, according to a study presented at the Multidisciplinary Head and Neck Cancer Symposium.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Feb 25, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

An Advance in Superconducting Magnet Technology Opens the Door for More Powerful Colliders

(PhysOrg.com) -- Preparing for as much as a 10-fold increase in the Large Hadron Collider's luminosity within the next decade, U.S. scientists and engineers have demonstrated a powerful magnet based on an ...

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (12) | comments 0