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Argonne scientists reach milestone in accelerator upgrade project

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 06, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory have successfully stopped and then reaccelerated a stable ion through a newly constructed charge-breeder, bringing the CAlifornium Rare Isotope ...





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Closing in on dark matter?

Physicists detect two candidate dark matter interactions, but say the data are not conclusive

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 18, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (15) | comments 6

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have spent decades searching for the elusive material known as dark matter, which is believed to make up 25 percent of the universe. On Thursday, Dec. 17, a team of physicists including ...


Beaming in on Warm Dense Matter (w/ Video)

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Neutralized Drift Compression Experiment II (NDCX-II) now under construction at Berkeley Lab will deliver a high-current pulse of lithium ions to a foil target almost simultaneously, momentarily heating ...


Ardi

Science's breakthrough of the year: Uncovering 'Ardi'

Other Sciences / Other

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (3) | comments 2

The research that brought to light the fossils of Ardipithecus ramidus, a hominid species that lived 4.4 million years ago in what is now Ethiopia, has topped Science's list of this year's most significant s ...


An Advance in Superconducting Magnet Technology Opens the Door for More Powerful Colliders

An Advance in Superconducting Magnet Technology Opens the Door for More Powerful Colliders

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (11) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Preparing for as much as a 10-fold increase in the Large Hadron Collider's luminosity within the next decade, U.S. scientists and engineers have demonstrated a powerful magnet based on an ...


Large Hadron Collider (LHC)

Large Hadron Collider produces first physics results

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (33) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- The first paper on proton collisions in the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) - designed to provide the highest energy ever explored with particle accelerators - is published online this week ...


City Tech physicist thinks small and big with CERN Large Hadron Collider research

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 11, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New York City College of Technology Physics Professor Giovanni Ossola thinks both small and big. He is currently developing a new tool that will lead to more precise computations involving the actions of particles (the smallest ...


Cosmic rays hunted down: Physicists are closing in on the origin of cosmic rays

Cosmic rays hunted down: Physicists are closing in on the origin of cosmic rays

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (11) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- A thin rain of charged particles continually bombards our atmosphere from outer space. The mysterious particles were first detected 100 years ago but until 10 years ago when a new type of ...


Hunt for Higgs boson: Mass of top quark narrows search

Hunt for Higgs boson: Mass of top quark narrows search

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (29) | comments 29

(PhysOrg.com) -- New high-energy particle research by a team working with data from Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory further heightens the uncertainty about the exact nature of a key theoretical component ...


Lasers used to make first boron-nitride nanotube yarn

Lasers used to make first boron-nitride nanotube yarn (w/ Video)

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (14) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have used lasers to create the first practical macroscopic yarns from boron nitride fibers, opening the door for an array of applications, from radiation-shielded spacecraft to ...


First Pump-Probe Experiment at LCLS Completed

First Pump-Probe Experiment at Linac Coherent Light Source Completed

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (12) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The first experiment using the Linac Coherent Light Source to illuminate molecules via a "pump-probe" technique has been completed by an international team of more than 30 scientists from ...



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