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A Flight Simulator for the World's Smallest Beam

A Flight Simulator for the World's Smallest Beam

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 31, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Commissioning has begun at the Japan-based Accelerator Test Facility 2, a major technology test bed for future accelerators, including the proposed International Linear Collider, or ILC. During ...





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American-made superconducting radiofrequency cavity makes the grade

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 17, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

The U.S. Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility marked a step forward in the field of advanced particle accelerator technology with the successful test of the first U.S.-built superconducting ...


Large Hadron Collider could test hyperdrive propulsion

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created Oct 09, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (29) | comments 5

(PhysOrg.com) -- The world's most powerful particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), could be used to test the principles behind hyperdrive, a possible future form of spacecraft propulsion that could drive spacecraft ...


Laser Acceleration of Electrons Excites Physicists

Laser Acceleration of Electrons Excites Physicists

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created Apr 20, 2007 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (16) | comments 0

A new experiment aims to accelerate electrons using dark red light.


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LHC now colder than deep space

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created Oct 20, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (28) | comments 7

(PhysOrg.com) -- The LHC (Large Hadron Collider) is once again colder than deep space as it is prepared for experiments to resume in late November.


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

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

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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 ...


Proton's party pals may alter its internal structure

Proton's party pals may alter its internal structure

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created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (20) | comments 9

A recent experiment at the DOE's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility has found that a proton's nearest neighbors in the nucleus of the atom may modify the proton's internal structure.


NuTeV Anomaly Helps Shed Light on Physics of the Nucleus

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created Jun 29, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new calculation clarifies the complicated relationship between protons and neutrons in the atomic nucleus and offers a fascinating resolution of the famous NuTeV Anomaly.


CU-Boulder to build $6 million instrument for NASA lunar orbiter

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jan 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The University of Colorado at Boulder has been awarded a $6 million grant from NASA to build a high-tech lunar dust detector for a 2011 mission to orbit the moon and conduct science investigations of the dusty lunar surface ...


Device zeroes in on small breast tumors

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created Jan 28, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

A new medical imager for detecting and guiding the biopsy of suspicious breast cancer lesions is capable of spotting tumors that are half the size of the smallest ones detected by standard imaging systems, according to a ...


New Idaho National Lab collaboration tackles nuclear fuel recycling science

New INL project tackles nuclear fuel recycling science

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created Sep 24, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new research project at Idaho National Laboratory and Argonne National Laboratory will use an innovative approach to learn how to get more use from nuclear fuel.



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