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Measurements from high-energy collisions lead to better understanding of why meson particles disappear

For several years, physicists at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), USA, have studied an unusual state of matter called the quark–gluon plasma, which they ...

Physics / General Physics

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The perfect liquid -- now even more perfect

Ultra hot quark-gluon-plasma, generated by heavy-ion collisions in particle accelerators, is supposed to be the "most perfect fluid" in the world. Previous theories imposed a limit on how "liquid" fluids can ...

Physics / Plasma Physics

created Jan 17, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (10) | comments 9 | with audio podcast

Belle discovers new heavy 'exotic hadrons'

(PhysOrg.com) -- Two unexpected new hadrons containing bottom quarks have been discovered by the Belle Experiment using the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK)'s B Factory (KEKB), a highly-luminous, ...

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created Jan 10, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (8) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Charming surprise: First evidence for CP violation in charm decays

The LHCb Collaboration has presented today at the Hadron Collider Particle Symposium in Paris possible first evidence for CP violation, the difference between behaviour of matter (particles) and antimatter ...

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created Nov 15, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (12) | comments 20 | with audio podcast

Major US atom-smasher closes after 25 years (Update)

A powerful US atom-smasher that was the world's biggest particle collider for nearly a quarter-century closed forever on Friday, solidifying Europe's place as the world leader in physics. ...

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created Sep 30, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 24

Physicists closing in on the elusive Higgs boson

Scientists at a meeting in Grenoble, France, recently stoked speculation that physicists at the world's biggest particle accelerator may soon provide a first look at the elusive Higgs boson - the final piece of evidence needed ...

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created Aug 17, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 26

Fermilab experiment discovers a heavy relative of the neutron

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists of the CDF collaboration at the Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory announced the observation of a new particle, the neutral Xi-sub-b (Ξb0). This particle ...

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created Jul 20, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (18) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Hunting the unseen

A better knowledge about the composition of sub-atomic particles such as protons and neutrons has sparked conjecture about, as yet, unseen particles. A tool based on theoretical calculations that could aid ...

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created Jul 15, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

When matter melts: Physicists map phase changes in quark-gluon plasma

In its infancy, when the universe was a few millionths of a second old, the elemental constituents of matter moved freely in a hot, dense soup of quarks and gluons. As the universe expanded, this quark–gluon ...

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created Jun 23, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (14) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New results about the primordial universe from CERN experiments

(PhysOrg.com) -- The three LHC-experiments (ALICE, ATLAS and CMS), which study lead-collisions have presented their latest results at the international Quark Matter 2011 conference, held in Annecy in France ...

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created May 25, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (10) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Physicists observe antihelium-4 nucleus, the heaviest antinucleus yet

(PhysOrg.com) -- In 1932, scientists observed the first antimatter particle, a positron (or antielectron). Since then, scientists have observed heavier and heavier states of antimatter: antiprotons and antineutrons ...

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created Mar 22, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (17) | comments 5 | with audio podcast report

The heaviest known antimatter

When an international team of scientists working at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) announced the discovery of the most massive antinucleus to date — and the first containing an anti-strange ...

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created Feb 14, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (11) | comments 14

Large Hadron Collider experiments bring new insight into primordial universe

(PhysOrg.com) -- After less than three weeks of heavy-ion running, the three experiments studying lead ion collisions at the LHC have already brought new insight into matter as it would have existed in the ...

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created Nov 26, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (33) | comments 86 | with audio podcast

Grant advances quark-gluon plasma studies

Rice University's Bonner Nuclear Lab has won a $1.175 million grant that will support its research on high-density and hot nuclear matter.

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created Oct 07, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 0

A step closer to Big Bang conditions? More study is needed to confirm the latest LHC findings

Since December, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has been smashing particles together at record-setting energy levels. Physicists hope that those high-energy collisions could replicate the conditions seen immediately ...

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created Sep 29, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (23) | comments 16 | with audio podcast