Search results for Muons
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?
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 ...
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. ...
Super-Kamiokande Finds Structure in the Cosmic Ray Sky
May 15, 2006 |
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Cosmic rays, which are high-energy atomic nuclei driven by spectacular cosmic events, come to us from every direction on the sky. Most of them are destroyed high in the atmosphere, creating a shower of high-speed ...
Scientists build an 'ice top' at the bottom of the world
May 23, 2007 |
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The University of Delaware is helping to build a huge "IceCube" at the South Pole, and it has nothing to do with cooling beverages.
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 ...
World’s fastest image processor aids search for elusive form of matter
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Feb 06, 2006 |
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If there is a need for speed at the edge of science, that need is arguably greatest among high-energy physicists.
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 ...
'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.
Big magnet ready to face the big questions of the universe
Nov 20, 2006 |
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The largest superconducting magnet ever built has successfully been powered up to its operating conditions at the first attempt. Called the Barrel Toroid because of its shape, this magnet is a vital part of ...
Novel magnets made from the strongest known hydrogen bond
Dec 06, 2006 |
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A team of scientists from the US, the UK and Germany has been the first to make a magnetic material constructed from nature's strongest known hydrogen bond. Hydrogen bonds are responsible for many of the properties ...
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.
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.
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 ...
New magnetic polymers may advance spintronics technologies
Dec 18, 2006 |
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Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory have pioneered a new approach for making magnetic polymers that are held together with very strong hydrogen bonds. These polymers contain ...
