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World's best measurement of W boson mass tests Standard Model, Higgs boson limits

(PhysOrg.com) -- Just as firemen use different methods to narrow the location of a person trapped in a building, scientists employ two techniques to find the hiding place of the theorized Higgs particle: direct ...

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 23, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (26) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

Physicists observe antihelium-4 nucleus, the heaviest antinucleus yet

(PhysOrg.com) -- In 1932, scientists observed the first antimatter particle, a positron (or antielectron). Since then, scientists have observed heavier and heavier states of antimatter: antiprotons and antineutrons ...

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created Mar 22, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (17) | comments 5 | with audio podcast report

Fermilab experiment discovers a heavy relative of the neutron

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists of the CDF collaboration at the Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory announced the observation of a new particle, the neutral Xi-sub-b (Ξb0). This particle ...

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created Jul 20, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (18) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Masses of common quarks are revealed

(PhysOrg.com) -- A research group co-founded by Cornell physics professor G. Peter Lepage has calculated the mass of the three lightest and, therefore, most elusive quarks: up, down and strange.

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created May 03, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (59) | comments 251

When matter melts: Physicists map phase changes in quark-gluon plasma

In its infancy, when the universe was a few millionths of a second old, the elemental constituents of matter moved freely in a hot, dense soup of quarks and gluons. As the universe expanded, this quark–gluon ...

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created Jun 23, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (14) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists find evidence for significant matter-antimatter asymmetry

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists of the DZero collaboration at the Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory announced Friday, May 14, that they have found evidence for significant violation ...

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created May 18, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (41) | comments 86 | with audio podcast

Gravity-like theories give insight into the strong force

A new computation of the constant that describes the strength of the force between the quarks in a proton may help theorists tackle one of the most challenging problems of physics: analytically solving the theory of QCD and ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Jun 07, 2010 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (24) | comments 9 | with audio podcast

Large Hadron Collider experiments bring new insight into primordial universe

(PhysOrg.com) -- After less than three weeks of heavy-ion running, the three experiments studying lead ion collisions at the LHC have already brought new insight into matter as it would have existed in the ...

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created Nov 26, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (33) | comments 86 | with audio podcast

Strange Antihyperparticle Created

(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists, including nine from UC Davis, working at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory recently created some strange matter not seen since just after the Big Bang -- an "antihypertriton" ...

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created Mar 30, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (33) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

How does the proton get its spin?

(PhysOrg.com) -- At a meeting this week of the American Physical Society in Washington, MIT Associate Professor of Physics Bernd Surrow reported on new results from the STAR experiment at the Relativistic ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Feb 17, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (33) | comments 17 | with audio podcast

Glasgow scientists predict mass of new particle

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of physicists from the University of Glasgow has predicted the mass of a new particle which would help explain one of the fundamental forces of the universe.

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created Jan 26, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (21) | comments 17 | with audio podcast

'Bubbles' of Broken Symmetry in Quark Soup at RHIC (w/ Video)

Scientists at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), a 2.4-mile-circumference particle accelerator at the U.S. DOE's Brookhaven National Laboratory, report the first hints of profound symmetry transformations ...

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created Feb 15, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (25) | comments 9 | with audio podcast

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

Jetting into the Quark-Gluon Plasma

After the quark-gluon plasma filled the universe for a few millionths of a second after the big bang, it was over 13 billion years until experimenters managed to recreate the extraordinarily hot, dense medium ...

Physics / Plasma Physics

created Jan 15, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (24) | comments 9 | with audio podcast

The perfect liquid -- now even more perfect

Ultra hot quark-gluon-plasma, generated by heavy-ion collisions in particle accelerators, is supposed to be the "most perfect fluid" in the world. Previous theories imposed a limit on how "liquid" fluids can ...

Physics / Plasma Physics

created Jan 17, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (10) | comments 9 | with audio podcast