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A way to detect a new quantum phase
Sep 27, 2006 |
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“So many systems in physics look different and do different things,” Luming Duan tells PhysOrg.com. “But when you get to fundamentals they look very similar. We are looking for new fundamentals that can help us understand differ ...
Physicists observe subatomic quick-change artist
Sep 25, 2006 |
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It's taken 19 long years of painstaking, high-precision experiments, but it's finally official: Physicists have announced the observation of a subatomic particle known as the Bs (pronounced "B sub s") meson ...
New Clue to World's Tiniest Particles
Sep 04, 2006 |
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Particle physicists around the world will be designing their next generation of billion-dollar experiments following new findings from a University of Adelaide-led research team. The Holy Grail of the world's particle physicists ...
Correcting a prejudice regarding high-energy nuclear collisions
Aug 07, 2006 |
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At the end of next year, CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is scheduled to go online. Already, there are four major experiments planned and one of them, ALICE, is dedicated to the study of heavy-ion collisions. Rudolph Hwa, ...
Search for Rare Particle Decay Comes Up Short
Aug 01, 2006 |
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Based on work performed at a large particle detector known as the BaBaR experiment, scientists announced recently that they do not see evidence to support theoretical predictions that an extremely rare particle ...
MIT physicists shed new light on superfluidity
Jul 20, 2006 |
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For the first time, MIT scientists have directly observed the transition of a gas to a superfluid, a form of matter closely related to the superconductors that allow electrical currents to travel without resistance.
Inside BaBar's Control Room
Jul 18, 2006 |
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Day and night, weekends, weekdays, and holidays, physicists from around the world take shifts in BaBar's Interaction Region 2 control room. The BaBar detector records the products of the positron-electron collisions ...
After the Big Bang: Project explores seconds that shaped the universe
Jul 12, 2006 |
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Kent State faculty and graduate students are among a team of physicists who recreated the material essence of the universe as it would have been mere microseconds after the Big Bang -- a quark-gluon plasma.
Supercomputers help physicists understand a force of nature
Jul 11, 2006 |
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What if the tiniest components of matter were somehow different from the way they exist now, perhaps only slightly different or maybe a lot? What if they had been different from the moment the universe began in the big bang? ...
Networking: Picking the next Dickens
May 15, 2006 |
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Charles Dickens serialized his novels -- "Oliver Twist, David Copperfield," amongst others -- in weekly newspapers and monthly magazines before they were published as books. Today, would-be novelists are publishing their ...
Scientists present a precision measurement of a subtle dance between matter and antimatter
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Apr 11, 2006 |
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Scientists of the CDF collaboration at the DOE's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory announced today the precision measurement of extremely rapid transitions between matter and antimatter.
What happened to the antimatter?
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Mar 23, 2006 |
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Scientists of the DZero collider detector collaboration at the Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory have announced that their data on the properties of a subatomic particle, the B_s ...
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.
Unbalanced Superfluid Could Be Akin to Exotic Matter Found in Quark Star
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Mar 14, 2006 |
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Rice University physicist Randall Hulet will discuss breakthrough efforts to create a long-sought quantum superfluid at a press conference today at the American Physical Society's 2006 March Meeting.
Record-breaking luminosity boosts discovery potential at Fermilab's Tevatron collider
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Mar 03, 2006 |
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The record-breaking performance of the Tevatron collider at the Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory is pushing the search for dark matter, supersymmetric particles and extra dimensions to new limits. ...
