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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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Pulling the Strings for the LCLS

Pulling the Strings for the LCLS

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 05, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Technician Yung-Yung Sung huddles over her desk twisting carbon wires—each half the diameter of a single strand of human hair—along curved grooves on a ceramic plate. Even Sung's skilled fingers can't prevent ...


ILC's High-Energy Collisions Require Accurate Energy Measurements

ILC's High-Energy Collisions Require Accurate Energy Measurements

Physics / General Physics

created Jul 03, 2007 | popularity 3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

The International Linear Collider (ILC) collaboration proposes to crash electron and positron beams together with a total energy of 500 GeV (billion electron volts). The actual energy of each beam will vary ...


Research finds that large(ish) objects can follow the rules of the microscopic world

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 18, 2006 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (22) | comments 0

Miles Blencowe, a quantum theorist with the physics and astronomy department at Dartmouth, is part of a team working to connect the macroscopic and the microscopic worlds by seeing if they can make larger objects obey the ...


Micro Sparky: Engineering the tiniest Sun Devil

Micro Sparky: Engineering the tiniest Sun Devil

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 30, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- An Arizona State University engineering student may have found the tiniest - yet most cleverly inventive - way to show school spirit.


Teleportation method proposed by Australian scientists

Teleportation method proposed by Australian scientists

Physics / General Physics

created Jul 03, 2007 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (102) | comments 2

Teleportation, a concept popularised in the original Star Trek television series, is edging closer to reality through work being conducted by theorists from The University of Queensland and Australian National ...


LCLS: The World's Largest Laser Writer?

LCLS: The World's Largest Laser Writer?

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 20, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- While not the smallest lettering ever created, the tiny initials "LCLS" have been written with what may be the world's most potent pen. Etched into boron carbide, a super-hard substance used ...


Large Hadron Collider: VELO -- in you go!

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 12, 2007 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (10) | comments 2

One of the most fragile detectors for the Large Hadron Collider beauty (LHCb) experiment has been successfully installed in its final position. LHCb is one of four large experiments at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC), ...


'Hot Bird' broadcast satellite is at pad

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created Jan 20, 2006 | popularity 3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Alcatel says the Hot Bird 7A broadcast satellite it built for Eutelsat Communications has arrived at its launch pad in French Guiana.


Scientists react as they stand in front of a screen at CERN

First atoms reported smashed in Large Hadron Collider (Update)

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (41) | comments 40

Two circulating beams on Monday produced the first particle collisions in the world's biggest atom smasher, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), three days after its restart, scientists announced.


Low-Alpha Mode Increases Possibilities at SSRL

Low-Alpha Mode Increases Possibilities at SSRL

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 20, 2007 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Since the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory (SSRL) began experiments in 1973, it has proven to be a bottomless well of scientific discovery. Now, a team of SLAC accelerator physicists is working to ...



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