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The slow-spin zone at the core of the sun

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Oct 24, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (23) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- The dense, hot, radioactive core of the Sun rotates significantly more slowly than the layer next to it, the radiative zone, a Stanford solar physicist has concluded.


First Neutrino Events Observed at T2K Near Detector

First Neutrino Events Observed at T2K Near Detector

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (25) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists from the Japanese-led multi-national T2K neutrino collaboration announced today that over the weekend they detected the first events generated by their newly built neutrino beam ...


Designing a test of neutrinos as dark matter candidates

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 11, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (60) | comments 6

One of the biggest mysteries of the universe deals with questions of dark matter. There are several experiments and models being designed all over the world to try and determine what would make good dark matter candidates. ...


Grant to Design Neutrino Detector

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 14, 2009 | popularity 2.8 / 5 (4) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- A consortium led by UC Davis physics professor Robert Svoboda will design the world's largest neutrino detector under a $4.4 million contract recently awarded by the National Science Foundation.


Queen Mary scientists shed light on a mysterious particle

Queen Mary scientists shed light on a mysterious particle

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (5) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists at Queen Mary, University of London have begun looking deep into the Earth to study some of nature's weirdest particles; neutrinos.


Chemist Travels World to Study Mysterious Properties of Neutrinos

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 19, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (23) | comments 14

In the quest to better understand one of nature's most "ghostly" elementary particles — the neutrino — scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory are spreading their expertise from ...


Officials break ground for the world's most advanced neutrino experiment

Officials break ground for the world's most advanced neutrino experiment

Physics / General Physics

created May 01, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (10) | comments 15

(PhysOrg.com) -- Construction begins this month on a cutting-edge physics laboratory in northern Minnesota, supported by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Congressman James Oberstar of Minnesota ...


Einstein's relativity survives neutrino test

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 15, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (53) | comments 16

Physicists working to disprove "Lorentz invariance" -- Einstein's prediction that matter and massless particles will behave the same no matter how they're turned or how fast they go -- won't get that satisfaction from muon ...


Invading black holes explain cosmic flashes

Invading black holes explain cosmic flashes

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Sep 18, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (25) | comments 12

(PhysOrg.com) -- Black holes are invading stars, providing a radical explanation to bright flashes in the universe that are one of the biggest mysteries in astronomy today.


Long-standing neutrino question resolved

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 11, 2007 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (7) | comments 0

An announcement by scientists at the Department of Energy’s Fermilab today significantly clarifies the overall picture of how neutrinos behave.


MiniBooNE Signal

Fermilab experiment resolves long-standing neutrino question

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 11, 2007 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (64) | comments 0

Scientists of the MiniBooNE experiment at the Department of Energy's Fermilab today announced their first findings. The MiniBooNE results resolve questions raised by observations of the LSND experiment in ...


Experiment confirms famous physics model

Experiment confirmed famous physics model

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 19, 2007 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (26) | comments 0

Physicists can rest easy--the Standard Model of Particle Physics is still in effect. More than 100 MIT students and professors jammed into Room 35-225 on Wednesday, April 11, to hear the long-anticipated results ...


CERN neutrino project on target

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created Aug 16, 2005 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Scientists at CERN announced the completion of the target assembly for the CERN neutrinos to Gran Sasso project, CNGS. On schedule for start-up in May 2006, CNGS will send a beam of neutrinos through the Earth to the Gran ...


'Big crunch' or another 'Big Bang?'

'Big crunch' or another 'Big Bang?'

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 16, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (16) | comments 83

Will the universe expand outward for all of eternity and end in a vast, dark, cold, sterile, diffuse nothingness? Or will the “Big Bang” — the gargantuan explosion that formed the universe 14 billion years ...


Neutrino To Be Lucky Catch

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created Mar 15, 2005 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Neutrinos released in Switzerland are due to be caught in Italy under the international project OPERA. The system of detectors for identifying these mysterious particles is developed by a joint effort of Russian and Ukrainian ...