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FAIR particle accelerator kick-off event
Nov 07, 2007 |
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Nuclear physicists from around the world are today celebrating the official launch of the particle accelerator FAIR with a gala event and a scientific symposium. The Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research is being set up ...
Scientists discover possible cosmic defect, remnant from Big Bang
Oct 25, 2007 |
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Scientists from the Institute of Physics of Cantabria (IFCA) and the University of Cambridge may have discovered an example of a cosmic defect, a remnant from the Big Bang called a texture. If confirmed, their discovery, ...
New particles get a mass boost
Oct 01, 2007 |
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A sophisticated, new analysis has revealed that the next frontier in particle physics is farther away than once thought. New forms of matter not predicted by the Standard Model of particle physics are most likely twice as ...
A new look at the proton
Sep 25, 2007 |
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Dutch researcher Paul van der Nat investigated more than three million collisions between electrons and protons. In his PhD thesis he demonstrates -- for the first time -- that the spin contribution of quarks to the proton ...
A new look at the proton
Sep 11, 2007 |
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Dutch researcher Paul van der Nat investigated more than three million collisions between electrons and protons. In his PhD thesis he demonstrates -for the first time– that the spin contribution of quarks ...
Joint Dark Energy Mission a Top Priority for NASA, Says NRC
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 06, 2007 |
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The National Research Council's Beyond Einstein Program Assessment Committee has recommended that the Joint Dark Energy Mission (JDEM), jointly supported by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration ...
Japanese professors to receive prestigious physics prize in Manchester
Jul 09, 2007 |
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The prestigious European Physical Society (EPS) High Energy and Particle Physics Prize will be awarded to two Japanese academics at a major conference at The University of Manchester.
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 ...
Back-to-Back b Baryons in Batavia
Jun 26, 2007 |
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Scientists at the Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory have announced the observation of the cascade b baryon-again.
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Mathematician suggests extra dimensions are time-like
Apr 17, 2007 |
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In a recent study, mathematician George Sparling of the University of Pittsburgh examines a fundamental question pondered since the time of Pythagoras, and still vexing scientists today: what is the nature ...
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 ...
