So you want to find dark matter, but you don't know where to look. A giant planet might be exactly the kind of particle detector you need! Luckily, our solar system just happens to have a couple of them available, and the ...
Astronomy
Apr 12, 2021
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Seven years ago, a huge magnet was transported over 3,200 miles (5,150km) across land and sea, in the hope of studying a subatomic particle called a muon.
General Physics
Apr 9, 2021
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Neutrinos are the shyest elementary particles known to exist. At this moment billions of them are shooting through each square centimeter of your body.
General Physics
Apr 1, 2021
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"Synchrotron (PS) is the beating heart of CERN's accelerator system. Situated at the center of the complex, it feeds particle beams not only to the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), but to many of CERN's major facilities, including ...
General Physics
Mar 10, 2021
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Accelerator experts from the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB), the German federal metrology institute Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) and Tsinghua University in Beijing have used a laser to manipulate electron bunches ...
General Physics
Feb 24, 2021
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A radiotherapy technique which 'paints' tumors by targeting them precisely, and avoiding healthy tissue, has been devised in research led by the University of Strathclyde.
General Physics
Feb 23, 2021
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Since the 1930s, scientists have been using particle accelerators to gain insights into the structure of matter and the laws of physics that govern our world. These accelerators are some of the most powerful experimental ...
General Physics
Jan 26, 2021
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Before researchers can smash together beams of particles to study high-energy particle interactions, they need to create those beams in particle accelerators. And the tighter the particles are packed in the beams, the better ...
General Physics
Jan 7, 2021
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Researchers have used AI to control beams for the next generation of smaller, cheaper accelerators for research, medical and industrial applications.
Plasma Physics
Dec 11, 2020
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A new facility that could pave the way for a future generation of particle colliders and powerful light sources has turned on at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. Operating as a DOE user facility, ...
General Physics
Oct 13, 2020
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