Search results for Muons
'Magnetricity' observed and measured for the first time
Oct 15, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A magnetic charge can behave and interact just like an electric charge in some materials, according to new research led by the London Centre for Nanotechnology.
'Cosmic opera' set for Paris tower
Oct 08, 2009 |
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The rooftop of a Paris skyscraper is to be transformed into a cosmic-ray laboratory in an unusual week-long experiment due to start on Saturday.
Columbia Researchers Lead Race to Find Dark Matter
Jul 27, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Inside a mountain range in central Italy, Columbia researchers are trying to solve one of the most pressing questions in modern physics: What is dark matter? The riddle has obsessed astronomers ...
NuTeV Anomaly Helps Shed Light on Physics of the Nucleus
Jun 29, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new calculation clarifies the complicated relationship between protons and neutrons in the atomic nucleus and offers a fascinating resolution of the famous NuTeV Anomaly.
Theorists Reveal Path to True Muonium
May 29, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- True muonium, a long-theorized but never-seen atom, might be observed in future experiments, thanks to recent theoretical work by researchers at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator ...
Study Yields Surprising New Insight into High-Temp Superconductors
Mar 17, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Recently, an international group of researchers discovered that the underlying mechanism producing high-temperature superconductivity in a widely studied class of copper-oxygen-based superconductors may be ...
Cosmic rays detected deep underground reveal secrets of the upper atmosphere (Video)
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 21, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Cosmic-rays detected half a mile underground in a disused U.S. iron-mine can be used to detect major weather events occurring 20 miles up in the Earth's upper atmosphere, a new study has revealed.
Spinning into the future of data storage
Nov 24, 2008 |
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Scientists from Queen Mary, University of London have improved their understanding of the inner workings of our computers and mp3 players, thanks to an exciting new field of research called 'organic spintronics'.
Fermilab's CDF Result Sparks Rumors of New Physics
Nov 04, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Where are the muon-muon pairs coming from?
Prelude to the Higgs: A work for 2 bosons in the key of Z
Jul 30, 2008 |
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Scientists of the DZero collaboration at the US Department of Energy's Fermilab have announced the observation of pairs of Z bosons, force-carrying particles produced in proton-antiproton collisions at the ...
UW scientists join hunt for 'God' particle to complete 'theory of everything'
May 21, 2008 |
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When the world's most powerful subatomic particle collider begins gathering data this summer, it will be a major milestone for a number of University of Washington scientists.
AMANDA's First Six Years
Feb 29, 2008 |
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The most recent results from the Antarctic Muon and Neutrino Detector Array, or AMANDA, located a mile under the ice at the South Pole, have yielded the most stringent prediction yet for the highest possible ...
New Underground Particle Detectors Proposed for Europe
Nov 30, 2007 |
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Three new giant underground particle detectors have been proposed for construction in Europe that could help achieve some major milestones in physics, such as verifying the decay of a proton, which has been theorized but ...
A Particle of a Different Flavor?
Nov 29, 2007 |
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Just as chocolate ice cream never spontaneously becomes strawberry or vanilla, leptons—electrons, muons and taus—are supposed to conserve their "flavor," or family.
Physicists discover 'triple-scoop' baryon
Jun 13, 2007 |
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Physicists of the DZero experiment at the Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory have discovered a new heavy particle, the Ξb (pronounced "zigh sub b") baryon, with a mass of 5. ...
