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Physics world shifts focus to Switzerland
Sep 06, 2007 |
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Scientists at Fermilab in Illinois are racing to find the elusive Higgs boson particle before a giant new Swiss lab opens next year.
Precision measurement of W boson mass portends stricter limits for Higgs particle
Mar 11, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists of the DZero collaboration at the Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory have achieved the world's most precise measurement of the mass of the W boson by a ...
Fermilab physicists discover 'doubly strange' particle
Sep 03, 2008 |
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Physicists of the DZero experiment at the U.S. Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory have discovered a new particle made of three quarks, the Omega-sub-b (Ωb). The particle contains ...
Fermilab's CDF observes Omega-sub-b baryon
Jun 29, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- At a recent physics seminar at the Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Fermilab physicist Pat Lukens of the CDF experiment announced the observation of a new particle, ...
Tevatron experiments double-team Higgs boson
Aug 04, 2008 |
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Scientists from the CDF and DZero collaborations at the U.S. Department of Energy's Fermilab have combined Tevatron data from the two experiments to advance the quest for the long-sought Higgs boson. Their ...
Officials break ground for the world's most advanced neutrino experiment
May 01, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Construction begins this month on a cutting-edge physics laboratory in northern Minnesota, supported by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Congressman James Oberstar of Minnesota ...
Grant to Design Neutrino Detector
Oct 14, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A consortium led by UC Davis physics professor Robert Svoboda will design the world's largest neutrino detector under a $4.4 million contract recently awarded by the National Science Foundation.
Is dark matter made of axions?
Mar 03, 2008 |
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One of the mysteries of our universe is that of dark energy and matter. Scientists all over the world are attempting to discover what particles make up dark energy and matter. “Axions are one of the particles ...
Atom smasher catches 1st high-energy collisions
Dec 09, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The world's largest atom smasher has recorded its first high-energy collisions of protons, a spokeswoman said Wednesday.
Graduate Student Wins Top Award for Particle Physics Dissertation
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Mar 20, 2006 |
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Maria Florencia Canelli, a recent doctoral student at the University of Rochester, won the American Physical Society's 2005 Mitsuyoshi Tanaka Dissertation Award in Experimental Particle Physics.
Fermilab's future: to be determined
Aug 23, 2006 |
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The University of Chicago wants to become administrator of Fermilab -- the home of the Tevatron, the world's most powerful atomic particle accelerator.
Precision measurement of W-boson mass suggests a lighter Higgs particle
Jan 08, 2007 |
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Scientists of the CDF collaboration at the Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory announced today the world's most precise measurement by a single experiment of the mass of the W boson, ...
Fermilab collider experiments discover rare single top quark
Mar 09, 2009 |
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(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 ...
Fermilab Experiment Prepares to Send Its First Neutrinos 450 miles away to Minnesota
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Jan 27, 2005 |
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Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory will begin a projected five-year experiment in early February, 2005 by sending the first batches of subatomic particles called neutrinos ...
CERN boss wants to bid for linear collider
Sep 16, 2009 |
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CERN’s director general Rolf-Dieter Heuer will push for the linear collider, the next big experiment in particle physics after the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), to be built at the Geneva lab. Heuer made his call to situate ...
