News tagged with quarks
Particle oddball surprises physicists
Mar 18, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists of the CDF experiment at the Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory announced yesterday that they have found evidence of an unexpected particle whose curious ...
Fermilab collider experiments discover rare single top quark
Mar 09, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists of the CDF and DZero collaborations at the Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory have observed particle collisions that produce single top quarks. The discovery ...
Moving Quarks Help Solve Proton Spin Puzzle
Sep 11, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- New theory work at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility has shown that more than half of the spin of the proton is the result of the movement of its building blocks: ...
Fermilab physicists discover 'doubly strange' particle
Sep 03, 2008 |
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Physicists of the DZero experiment at the U.S. Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory have discovered a new particle made of three quarks, the Omega-sub-b (Ωb). The particle contains ...
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3 Questions: Steven Nahn on the elusive Higgs boson
Oct 19, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Troubles at the Large Hadron Collider have led some physicists to suggest the Higgs boson is sabotaging its own discovery. Nahn explains why he disagrees.
'Masters of light' win Nobel Physics Prize
Oct 06, 2009 |
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Charles Kao, Willard Boyle and George Smith won the 2009 Nobel Physics Prize Tuesday for pioneering "masters of light" work on fibre optics and semiconductors, the Nobel jury said.
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 ...
In Search of Antimatter Galaxies
Aug 17, 2009 |
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NASA's space shuttle program is winding down. With only about half a dozen more flights, shuttle crews will put the finishing touches on the International Space Station (ISS), bringing to an end twelve years ...
Particle collider: Black hole or crucial machine?
Aug 07, 2009 |
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(AP) -- When launched to great fanfare nearly a year ago, some feared the Large Hadron Collider would create a black hole that would suck in the world. It turns out the Hadron may be the black hole.
Fire Meets Ice: Superhot And Supercold Remarkably Similar In The 'Fermion' World (w/ Video)
Aug 04, 2009 |
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Trapping and cooling a microscopic clump of gas and then suddenly releasing it would normally result in the gas rapidly expanding outward in all directions, like a spherical bubble.
Ytterbium's broken symmetry: The largest parity violations ever measured in an atom
Jul 22, 2009 |
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Ytterbium was discovered in 1878, but until it recently became useful in atomic clocks, the soft metal rarely made the news. Now ytterbium has a new claim to scientific fame. Measurements with ytterbium-174, ...
NuTeV Anomaly Helps Shed Light on Physics of the Nucleus
Jun 29, 2009 |
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(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.
Fermilab's CDF observes Omega-sub-b baryon
Jun 29, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- At a recent physics seminar at the Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Fermilab physicist Pat Lukens of the CDF experiment announced the observation of a new particle, ...
Particle physics study finds new data for extra Z-bosons and potential fifth force of nature
Apr 28, 2009 |
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The Large Hadron Collider is an enormous particle accelerator whose 17-mile tunnel straddles the borders of France and Switzerland. A group of physicists at the University of Nevada, Reno has analyzed data from the accelerator ...
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