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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 ...
Tevatron collider yields new results on subatomic matter, forces
Apr 17, 2007 |
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Scientists of the CDF and DZero experiments at the Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory presented on April 15 at the annual April meeting of the American Physical Society the latest results of intriguing ...
Is the Vacuum Empty? -- the Higgs Field and the Dark Energy
May 10, 2007 |
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The problems in understanding the true nature of the “vacuum” of space were discussed by theoretical physicist Alvaro de Rújula from CERN (the European Council for Nuclear Research) in Geneva, Switzerland, and a professor ...
HAPPEx results hint at strangely magnetic proton
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Apr 21, 2005 |
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New results from research performed at the Department of Energy's Jefferson Lab hint that strange quarks may contribute to the proton's magnetic moment. If confirmed by data to be taken later this year, these surprising results ...
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, ...
Princeton physicists connect string theory with established physics
May 02, 2007 |
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String theory, simultaneously one of the most promising and controversial ideas in modern physics, may be more capable of helping probe the inner workings of subatomic particles than was previously thought, according to a ...
Team Detects 'Top Quark,' a Basic Constituent of Matter
Dec 13, 2006 |
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A group of 50 international physicists, led by UC Riverside’s Ann Heinson, has detected for the first time a subatomic particle, the top quark, produced without the simultaneous production of its antimatter ...
Seeking Answers to the Puzzle of Proton Spin
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Apr 24, 2006 |
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Thanks to a series of machine upgrades, researchers at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), the newest and largest particle accelerator at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory, ...
Solving the Mysteries of Quarks
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May 26, 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 at the University ...
Possible Fifth Force Would Make Direct Detection of Dark Matter Unlikely
Mar 26, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- No one knows exactly what a “fifth force” might be, but studies have shown that, if a long-range fifth force does exist, it could have surprising effects on the universe’s structure formation. ...
IU Physicists to get their 'glue-on'
May 19, 2008 |
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Indiana University physicists, with the backing of a National Science Foundation grant of $750,000, are preparing to study the strongest glue in the universe -- a glue so strong that it has held together the ...
RIKEN-BNL Research Center dedicates new supercomputer for physics research
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May 26, 2005 |
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A new computer – the RIKEN BNL Research Center supercomputer – was unveiled today at a dedication ceremony at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory attended by physicists from around the world. It ...
A new particle discovered by Babar experiment
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Jul 06, 2005 |
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It can help to reveal the secrets of the strong force Its name is Y(4260) and it is not a new humanoid of Stars Wars, but a particle identified for the first time by BaBar experiment: an international collaboration - forme ...
Physicists Discover New Particle: the Bottom-most 'Bottomonium'
Jul 10, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Thirty years ago, particle physics delighted in discovering the "bottomonium" family—the set of particles that contain both a bottom quark and an anti-bottom quark but are bound together with different energies. ...
Physicists observed new interaction in elementary particle physics
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Jul 01, 2005 |
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Physics researchers working at the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK) Laboratory in Japan have observed a new type of interaction among the most fundamental of particles, the quark. The scientists reported ...
