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New Liquid-Lithium Charge Stripper can Increase Accelerator Power Beyond the Present Limit

The Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) accelerates heavy-ion beams at beam power up to 400 kilowatts into a target to create rare isotopes for scientific research. A charge stripper plays an essential role in this process.

12 Sep 2022

The Secret Around Cosmic Matter Unleashed

The cosmos was populated with an equal number of matter and “antimatter” particles right after the Big Bang. The universe then cooled as space expanded.

9 Sep 2022

Researchers Employ the Physics of Chiral Quasi Bound States in the Continuum

An ultracompact circularly polarized light source is crucial component for the applications of classical and quantum optics information processing.

9 Sep 2022

Atomic Process Analysis in High-Temperature Superconductors

An international research group has recently released findings that shed light on the atomic mechanism underlying high-temperature superconductors.

8 Sep 2022

Hawaii Telescope Captures Star Blasts Hitting Orion’s “Sword”

The most comprehensive photographs of the region where the famous constellation of Orion is bombarded with ultraviolet radiation from massive young stars have been taken by astronomers.

8 Sep 2022

Expansion of Laser Facility Enables the Development of Next-Generation Particle Accelerators

Researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have completed a major expansion of one of the world's most powerful laser systems, creating new opportunities in accelerator research for the future of high-energy physics and other fields.

8 Sep 2022

Star Burning Analysis Through Neutron Upscattering

The “Hoyle state,” an excited form of carbon-12, is a unique arrangement of carbon that may be measured in a novel way.

7 Sep 2022

New Diamond Quantum Sensor for High-Sensitivity Battery Current Monitoring

The popularity of electric vehicles (EVs) as an environmentally friendly alternative to conventional gasoline vehicles has been on the rise. This has led to research efforts directed towards developing high-efficiency EV batteries. But, a major inefficiency in EVs results from inaccurate estimations of the battery charge.

7 Sep 2022

Researchers Demonstrate a New Magnetized State in a Monolayer of Tungsten Ditelluride

A research team led by a physicist at the University of California, Riverside, has demonstrated a new magnetized state in a monolayer of tungsten ditelluride, or WTe2, a new quantum material.

7 Sep 2022

High-Accuracy Electric Vehicle Battery Monitoring with Diamond Quantum Sensors for Driving Range Extension Towards Carbon Neutrality

The issue of battery usage inefficiency in electric vehicles resulting from an inaccurate battery charge measurement may finally get resolved, thanks to a diamond quantum sensor prototype developed in the MEXT Q-LEAP Flagship project with researchers from Tokyo Tech and Yazaki Corporation.

7 Sep 2022

Color Change Detected in Red Giant Betelgeuse

Brightness, size, and color alter as nuclear fusion in a star’s core advances. These qualities provide astronomers with crucial details about a star’s age and mass. Together with collaborators from the USA and Italy, astronomers at Friedrich Schiller University in Jena, Germany, have now successfully detected and dated such a color change in a brilliant star.

6 Sep 2022