News tagged with proton beam
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.
Nov 18, 2011 |
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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.
Oct 28, 2011 |
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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 ...
Jan 13, 2011 |
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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 ...
Dec 08, 2010 |
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First Neutrino Events Observed at T2K Near Detector
(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists from the Japanese-led multi-national T2K neutrino collaboration announced today that over the weekend they detected the first events generated by their newly built neutrino beam ...
Nov 24, 2009 |
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Particles are back in the LHC
During the last weekend (23-25 October) particles have once again entered the LHC after the one-year break that followed the incident of September 2008.
Oct 26, 2009 |
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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 ...
Apr 19, 2012 |
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Shutting Off the Large Hadron Collider
On hilly parts of the Interstate highway system, road engineers provide steep-grade areas with gravel off-ramps for trucks that lose their brakes. The ramps bring the big rigs to a rough but safe halt.
Jul 15, 2010 |
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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 ...
Jun 13, 2010 |
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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 ...
Jun 09, 2010 |
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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 ...
Dec 16, 2009 |
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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.
Dec 05, 2011 |
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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 ...
Oct 19, 2010 |
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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 ...
Mar 31, 2010 |
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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 ...
May 13, 2011 |
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