The charge of a single electron, e, is defined as the basic unit of electric charge. Because electrons—the subatomic particles that carry electricity—are elementary particles and cannot be split, fractions of electronic ...
General Physics
Jun 10, 2020
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According to University of Illinois physicist Douglas H. Beck, "Neutrons play some unusual roles in our world. Free neutrons decay in about 900 s but, bound in nuclei, they are stable and make up somewhat more than half the ...
General Physics
Aug 15, 2018
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Researchers have found a way to accelerate antimatter in a 1000x smaller space than current accelerators, boosting the science of exotic particles.
General Physics
Aug 9, 2018
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New particles produced in the LHC's high-energy proton-proton collisions don't hang around for long. A Higgs boson exists for less than a thousandth of a billionth of a billionth of a second before decaying into lighter particles, ...
General Physics
Jan 18, 2018
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A team of researchers has devised a simple way to tune a hallmark quantum effect in graphene—the material formed from a single layer of carbon atoms—by bathing it in light. Their theoretical work, which was published ...
Quantum Physics
Jan 15, 2018
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The Nobel Physics Prize honors big discoveries involving materials often too small to be seen by the naked eye.
General Physics
Oct 3, 2017
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New research by physicists at the University of Chicago settles a longstanding disagreement over the formation of exotic quantum particles known as Efimov molecules.
Quantum Physics
Jun 23, 2017
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Proton collisions in the Large Hadron Collider often result in the production of "jets" of particles. These jets are a key element in the measurement of many processes, such as the decays of Higgs bosons or other exotic particles. ...
General Physics
May 3, 2017
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Yesterday, 18 December 2016, the sun aligned with the centre of our galaxy to allow a pioneering experiment to take place at CERN.
Dec 19, 2016
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On 28 June, the LHCb collaboration reported the observation of three new "exotic" particles and the confirmation of the existence of a fourth one in data from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). These particles seem to be formed ...
General Physics
Jul 5, 2016
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