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UCR Physicists Receive Recognition for Work on Compact Muon Solenoid Pixel Detector

A team of University of California, Riverside physicists recently received recognition for their work on the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) pixel detector, a particle tracker integral to the study of fundamental particle physics. Martina Malberti, Kira Burt, Manuel Olmedo and Mauro Dinardo make up part of the group responsible for repairing malfunctioning channels in the forward pixel detector.

5 Sep 2013

Weakly Interacting Sub-Electron Volt Particles Include Axions That May be Part of Dark Matter

Nuclear magnetic resonance -- that phenomenon where nuclei of certain atoms, when in a magnetic field, take in and give off measurable amounts of electromagnetic radiation -- is everywhere.

5 Sep 2013

Project on Dark Matter From a Composite Goldstone Boson Presented at Mass 2013

For three weeks in August, leading physicists from all over the world attended the Mass 2013 conference at CP³-Origins in Odense, Denmark. Lots of new calculations were presented, among them the results of the project ‘Dark Matter from a Composite Goldstone Boson’ – a lattice study of SU(2) gauge theory with two fundamental fermions.

5 Sep 2013

Researchers Create Highest-Resolution Maps of Earth’s Gravity Field

A joint Australian-German research team led by Curtin University’s Dr Christian Hirt has created the highest-resolution maps of Earth’s gravity field to date – showing gravitational variations up to 40 per cent larger than previously assumed.

5 Sep 2013

New Scalesetting Method May Simplify Search for New Physics in the Universe

No one knows for sure, but it is not unlikely that the universe is constructed in a completely different way than the usual theories and models of today predict. The most widely used model today cannot explain everything in the universe, and therefore there is a need to explore the parts of nature which the model cannot explain. This research field is called new physics, and it turns our understanding of the universe upside down. New research now makes the search for new physics easier.

5 Sep 2013

Bipolar Planetary Nebulae Create Ghostly Butterfly Shapes Around Parent Stars

Astronomers have used the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and ESO's New Technology Telescope to explore more than 100 planetary nebulae in the central bulge of our galaxy. They have found that butterfly-shaped members of this cosmic family tend to be mysteriously aligned — a surprising result given their different histories and varied properties.

5 Sep 2013

Dark Energy Survey to Systematically Map One-Eighth of the Sky

For hundreds of nights during the next five years, the world’s most powerful digital camera will turn skyward, helping a team of physicists and astronomers from around the globe answer fundamental questions about our universe.

4 Sep 2013

CQT Supervised Student Wins Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Prize

Physics undergraduate Jeysthur Ang has been awarded an Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Prize (OURP) for research he carried out at CQT. He is the fourth student supervised at CQT to receive the National University of Singapore prize.

4 Sep 2013

Strides Toward Uncovering Role of Charge ‘Stripes’ in Superconductivity

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have identified a series of clues that particular arrangements of electrical charges known as "stripes" may play a role in superconductivity—the ability of some materials to carry electric current with no energy loss.

4 Sep 2013

New Platform Proposed for Quantum Simulation

Researchers from the universities in Mainz, Frankfurt, Hamburg, and Ulm have proposed a new platform for quantum simulation. In a theoretical paper recently published in Physical Review Letters, they show that a combined system of ultracold trapped ions and fermionic atoms could be used to emulate solid state physics.

4 Sep 2013