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Latest Supercomputer Calculations Support the Six-Quark Theory
Feb 11, 2008 |
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A new calculation, reported in the January 25, 2008 issue of Physical Review Letters, confirms the six-quark theory of particle-anti-particle asymmetry. This is the first complete calculation of this phenomenon to employ ...
eRHIC gets to the heart of the matter
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Apr 26, 2006 |
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At the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory, scientists have proposed a new way of studying the structure of matter down to a level never before observed. Their proposal is the "eRHIC" ...
Physicists 'See' Single Top Quarks at the Tevatron
Aug 22, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the world's largest fully operating particle accelerator, the Tevatron at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) in Illinois, have discovered convincing evidence suggesting the existence ...
'Strange' physics experiment is unraveling structure of proton
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Jun 17, 2005 |
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An international team of nuclear physicists has determined that particles called strange quarks do, indeed, contribute to the ordinary properties of the proton. Quarks are subatomic particles that form the buildin ...
Not a Quirk But a Quark ... a Quark Star!
Jun 27, 2008 |
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Astronomers recently announced that they have found a novel explanation for a rare type of super-luminous stellar explosion that may have produced a new type of object known as a quark star.
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? ...
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 ...
G-Zero Finds that Ghostly Strange Quarks Influence Proton Structure
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Jun 20, 2005 |
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In research performed at the Department of Energy's Jefferson Lab, nuclear physicists have found that strange quarks do contribute to the structure of the proton. This result indicates that, just as previous experiments have ...
Spin Structure of Protons and Neutrons
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Oct 10, 2005 |
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Normally, we think of building blocks as static objects. For instance, the brick and mortar used to build the local bank remain pretty much the same from the day it's built to the day it's torn down. But the ...
End of an era at HERA accelerator
Jul 02, 2007 |
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Fifteen years of scientific discovery came to an end on June 30th when the electrons and protons in the HERA accelerator made their final lap of the 6.3 km ring. The HERA ring has provided these particles and their anti-particle ...
Liverpool Scientists Help To Solve The Mysteries Of Quarks
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Jun 21, 2005 |
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Particle physicists are embarking on a new attempt to solve the mysteries of quarks with the completion of the three most powerful supercomputers ever applied to this problem, including one in Edinburgh which scientists at ...
The Proton's Strange Magnetism
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Aug 26, 2005 |
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The proton is made of three quarks--two up quarks and one down quark--but other types constantly flit into and out of existence. The 26 August PRL provides the first detailed picture of strange quarks in this ...
Quarks take wrong turns
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Apr 13, 2004 |
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Physicists peering inside the neutron are seeing glimmers of what appears to be an impossible situation. The vexing findings pertain to quarks, which are the main components of neutrons and protons. The quarks, in essence, ...
Where has all the antimatter gone?
Apr 11, 2007 |
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Scientists from the Universities of Liverpool and Glasgow have completed work on the inner heart of an experiment which seeks to find out what has happened to all the antimatter created at the start of the Universe. Matter ...
Ultracold gas mimics ultrahot plasma
Feb 15, 2009 |
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Several years after Duke University researchers announced spectacular behavior of a low density ultracold gas cloud, researchers at Brookhaven National Laboratory have observed strikingly similar properties in a very hot ...
