News tagged with accelerator
Science Begins at the World's Most Powerful X-ray Laser (w/ Video)
Nov 02, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The first experiments are now underway using the world's most powerful X-ray laser, the Linac Coherent Light Source, located at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. ...
Laser-plasma accelerators ride on Einstein's shoulders
Nov 02, 2009 |
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Using Einstein's theory of special relativity to speedup computer simulations, scientists have designed laser-plasma accelerators with energies of 10 billion electron volts (GeV) and beyond. These systems, ...
Short heels make elite sprinters super speedy
Oct 30, 2009 |
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What is it about elite sprinters that gives them the edge over non-sprinters in the 100m dash? Stephen Piazza from the Pennsylvania State University publishes his discovery, in The Journal of Experimental Bi ...
LHC now colder than deep space
Oct 20, 2009 |
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(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.
Large Hadron Collider could test hyperdrive propulsion
Oct 09, 2009 |
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(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 ...
Physicists seek to keep next-gen colliders in one piece
Oct 05, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Controlling huge electromagnetic forces that have the potential to destroy the next generation of particle accelerators is the subject of a new paper by a University of Manchester physicist.
Clemson researchers study energy savings with electric cars and IntelliDrive technology
Sep 28, 2009 |
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Clemson University researchers have been awarded a $470,000 National Science Foundation grant to study making plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) more efficient to reduce fossil fuel use.
American-made superconducting radiofrequency cavity makes the grade
Sep 17, 2009 |
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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 ...
Belle Finds a Hint of New Physics in Extremely Rare B Decays
Sep 07, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Quarks, the most fundamental constituents of matters, are classified into six species grouped into three generations as predicted by Professors Kobayashi and Maskawa. The purpose of the B ...
Hydrogen-rich Material Promises Advances in Energy Transmission, Fuel Storage
Aug 20, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Science, a joint institute of SLAC and Stanford University, have produced a hydrogen-rich alloy that could provide insight into ...
Exploring the standard model of physics without the high-energy collider
Aug 10, 2009 |
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Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in the US, have performed sophisticated laser measurements to detect the subtle effects of one of nature's most ...
Cut marks on bone suggest burial rituals of Early Britons
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Aug 07, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Research on human remains from Kent’s Cavern in Devon has led scientists to believe that humans from the Mesolithic period (after the Ice Age) may have engaged in complex ritualistic burial ...
New experiment could reveal make-up of the Universe
Aug 06, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the University of Liverpool are constructing highly sensitive detectors as part of an international project to understand the elements that make up the universe.
Restart of Large Hadron Collider now November
Jul 30, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Repairs to two small helium leaks in the world's largest atom smasher will delay the restart of the giant machine another month until November, a spokesman for the operator said Thursday.
When did humans return after last Ice Age?
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Jul 27, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The Cheddar Gorge in Somerset was one of the first sites to be inhabited by humans when they returned to Britain near the end of the last Ice Age. According to new radio carbon dating by Oxford ...
