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Plasma Physics Nov 30, 2022

Gaining more control over plasma accelerators by combining acceleration methods

If one particle accelerator alone is not enough to achieve the desired result, why not combine two accelerators? An international team led by physicists at the Center for Advanced Laser Applications (CALA) at LMU Munich has ...

Astronomy Nov 23, 2022

NASA's IXPE helps solve black hole jet mystery

Some of the brightest objects in the sky are called blazars. They consist of a supermassive black hole feeding off material swirling around it in a disk, which can create two powerful jets perpendicular to the disk on each ...

General Physics Nov 15, 2022

Powerful linear accelerator begins smashing atoms—how it could reveal rare forms of matter

Just a few hundred feet from where we are sitting is a large metal chamber devoid of air and draped with the wires needed to control the instruments inside. A beam of particles passes through the interior of the chamber silently ...

Earth Sciences Nov 2, 2022

Iodine accelerates formation of cloud condensation nuclei in the atmosphere

The natural cycles of exchange of substances between the biosphere and the atmosphere are of major relevance to the Earth's climatic system. Perhaps the best-known example of this is the carbon cycle that involves the transfer ...

Nanophysics Oct 24, 2022

New findings about 'old' materials informs our future and our past

A team of researchers led by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's Edwin Fohtung, associate professor of materials science and engineering, has combined expertise in mathematics and condensed matter physics with technological ...

Plasma Physics Oct 22, 2022

Particle physics pushing cancer treatment boundaries

Researchers at Europe's science lab CERN, who regularly use particle physics to challenge our understanding of the universe, are also applying their craft to upend the limits to cancer treatment.

General Physics Sep 28, 2022

Exploring a new algorithm for reconstructing particles

A team of researchers from CERN, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Staffordshire University have implemented a new algorithm for reconstructing particles at the Large Hadron Collider.

Planetary Sciences Sep 22, 2022

Researchers use beams of muons to analyze the elemental composition of Asteroid Ryugu samples

Stone samples brought back to Earth from asteroid Ryugu have had their elemental composition analyzed using an artificially generated muon beam from the particle accelerator in J-PARC. Researchers found a number of important ...

Optics & Photonics Sep 19, 2022

Compact electron accelerator reaches new speeds with nothing but light

Scientists harnessing precise control of ultrafast lasers have accelerated electrons over a 20-centimeter stretch to speeds usually reserved for particle accelerators the size of 10 football fields.

Analytical Chemistry Sep 16, 2022

Tailoring the particle sizes of Pt₅Ce alloy nanoparticles for the oxygen reduction reaction

This study was led by Dr. Yang Hu (Institute of Department of Energy Conversion and Storage, the Technical University of Denmark) and Dr. Qing-Feng Li (Institute of Department of Energy Conversion and Storage, Technical University ...

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