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For One Tiny Instant, Physicists May Have Broken a Law of Nature

(PhysOrg.com) -- For a brief instant, it appears, scientists at Brook­haven National Laboratory on Long Island recently discovered a law of nature had been broken.

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 19, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (110) | comments 77 | 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.

Physics / General Physics

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

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 ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 18, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (41) | 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" ...

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 30, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (33) | comments 4 | 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 ...

Physics / General Physics

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

Hunt for Higgs boson: Mass of top quark narrows search

(PhysOrg.com) -- New high-energy particle research by a team working with data from Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory further heightens the uncertainty about the exact nature of a key theoretical component ...

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (31) | comments 29

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

'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 ...

Physics / General Physics

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

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

'Perfect' Liquid Hot Enough to be Quark Soup (w/ Video)

Recent analyses from the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), a 2.4-mile-circumference "atom smasher" at the U.S. DOE's Brookhaven National Laboratory, establish that collisions of gold ions traveling at ...

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 15, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (24) | comments 7 | 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

Fermilab collider experiments discover rare single top quark

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists of the CDF and DZero collaborations at the Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory have observed particle collisions that produce single top quarks. The discovery ...

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 09, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (22) | comments 8

A step closer to Big Bang conditions? More study is needed to confirm the latest LHC findings

Since December, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has been smashing particles together at record-setting energy levels. Physicists hope that those high-energy collisions could replicate the conditions seen immediately ...

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 29, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (23) | comments 16 | with audio podcast

Proton's party pals may alter its internal structure

A recent experiment at the DOE's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility has found that a proton's nearest neighbors in the nucleus of the atom may modify the proton's internal structure.

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (22) | comments 9

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