Heavy, short-lived elementary particle could help refine understanding of the universe
The top quark is a unique little thing.
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LSU physicists collaborate on T2K CP violation results to explain workings of universe
Why the universe is dominated by matter today, instead of being comprised of equal parts matter and antimatter, is one of the most intriguing questions in all of science. One of the conditions required for the observed dominance ...
General Physics
Sep 6, 2016
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Russian scientists on the verge of solving the 'muon puzzle'
It may only take scientists a few more years to solve one of the biggest puzzles in modern elementary particle physics, the so-called "muon puzzle." Russian scientists from the National Research Nuclear University (MEPhI) ...
General Physics
Aug 26, 2016
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Team testing new scanner on Egypt's Great Pyramid
What mysteries might still be hidden under Egypt's pyramids? A team accompanied by Egypt's former antiquities minister and famed archaeologist Zahi Hawass are testing a new scanner on the Great Pyramid of Giza on Thursday, ...
Archaeology
Jun 2, 2016
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Muon decay is 500,000 times more improbable than winning the lottery
Modern physics has developed a great number of theoretical approaches with which the world of elementary particles can be described. Now it's up to experiments to sort out which theories hold up against reality. One of these ...
General Physics
Mar 9, 2016
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Muon g-2 magnet successfully cooled down and powered up
Two years ago, scientists on the Muon g-2 experiment successfully brought a fragile, expensive and complex 17-ton electromagnet on a 3,200-mile land and sea trek from DOE's Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York to Fermi ...
General Physics
Oct 5, 2015
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Research investigates whether solar events could trigger birth defects on Earth
Studies find airplane crews at high altitude are exposed to potentially harmful levels of radiation from cosmic rays.
Space Exploration
Jul 20, 2015
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Physicists energized about restart of Large Hadron Collider
When Kevin McDermott and Susan Dittmer talk about what they might discover when their particle detector goes back online in Switzerland, it's a little like talking to a 5-year-old on Christmas Eve.
General Physics
Apr 2, 2015
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Technology to look inside Fukushima reactors faces challenge
The cutting-edge technology was billed as a way to decipher where exactly the morass of nuclear fuel might sit at the bottom of reactors in the Japanese power plant that went into multiple meltdowns four years ago.
Energy & Green Tech
Mar 27, 2015
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Cosmic-ray muon technology to be used to image debris inside Fukushima Dai-ichi reactors
Toshiba Corporation and the International Research Institute for Nuclear Decommissioning (IRID) today announced the development of a muon-based technology for imaging and mapping nuclear fuel debris inside the reactor pressure ...
Mar 27, 2015
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