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New AVA Research and Training Network Looks at Mysterious Particles

Professor Carsten P. Welsch of the Cockcroft Institute and Head of the Physics Department at the University of Liverpool explains that a new research and training network called AVA, ‘Accelerators Validating Antimatter physics’, is looking at the mysterious particles that are thought to mirror those in the ‘real’ world.

3 Oct 2016

MPQ Scientists Observe Emergence of Antiferromagnetic Correlations in Fermionic Atoms

Solid state physics offers a rich variety of intriguing phenomena, several of which are not yet fully understood.

30 Sep 2016

ALMA Discovers Stunning Spiral-Shape Pinwheel of Dust Around Young Star Elias 2-27

Swirling around the young star Elias 2-27 is a stunning spiral-shape pinwheel of dust. This striking feature, seen with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), is the product of density waves – gravitational perturbations in the star's protoplanetary disk that produce sweeping arms reminiscent of a spiral galaxy, but on a much smaller scale.

30 Sep 2016

Researchers Explore How Magnetic Fluctuations Arise in Unconventional, High-Temperature Superconductors

New findings from researchers at Rice University, the University of Illinois at Chicago and the University of California at San Diego (UCSD) suggest that condensed-matter physicists need to rethink how magnetic fluctuations arise in both unconventional and high-temperature superconductors.

30 Sep 2016

Japanese Researchers Use ALMA to Observe Massive Star in Neighbouring Dwarf Galaxy

A team of Japanese researchers have used the power of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to observe a massive star known as ST11 in our neighbouring dwarf galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC).

30 Sep 2016

CERN’s LHCb Experiment Could Help Physicists Solve Longstanding Mystery of the Universe

One of the biggest challenges in physics is to understand why everything we see in our universe seems to be formed only of matter, whereas the Big Bang should have created equal amounts of matter and antimatter.

29 Sep 2016

Scientists Identify New Method to Visualize Quantum Behavior of Hot Electrons

Scientists have, for the first time, identified a method of visualising the quantum behaviour of electrons on a surface. The findings present a promising step forward towards being able to manipulate and control the behaviour of high energy, or ‘hot’, electrons.

29 Sep 2016

Scientists Succeed in Placing Quantum Optical Structure on Scalable Chip

Whether for use in safe data encryption, ultrafast calculation of huge data volumes or so-called quantum simulation of highly complex systems: Optical quantum computers are a source of hope for tomorrow’s computer technology.

28 Sep 2016

New Experimental Meteoric Ablation Simulator Could Help Answer Questions About Cosmic Dust

The solar system is a dusty environment, with trillions of cosmic dust particles left behind by comets and asteroids that orbit the sun. All this dust forms a relatively dense cloud through which the Earth travels, sweeping up the interplanetary dust particles very effectively.

28 Sep 2016

Physics Professor Builds World-Class Laser Optics Laboratory in Natural Sciences Building at Umea University

An enthusiastic László Veisz shows his laser lab in the basement of the Natural Sciences Building at Umeå University. His research on ultrafast processes is now reaching the incredible time scale that describes electron movements in atoms, molecules and ionised plasma.

28 Sep 2016

Toshiba and QST Develop Novel Heavy-Ion Radiotherapy Technology to Accurately Track Tumor Motion

Toshiba Corporation and the National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology (QST) have developed a novel tumor tracking technology for heavy-ion radiotherapy equipment that accurately tracks tumor motion caused by respiration.

27 Sep 2016

Cornell-Led Scientists Awarded $23 Million NSF Grant to Increase Brightness of Charged Particle Beams

A collaboration of scientists, led by Cornell University, has been awarded $23 million by the National Science Foundation to increase the intensity of beams of charged particles while lowering the cost of key accelerator technologies.

27 Sep 2016

NSE Graduate Student Uses Particle Physics to Solve Nuclear Weapon Disarmament Problems

Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering (NSE) graduate student Jayson Vavrek got his start in high-energy particle physics looking for the smallest forms of matter in the universe. Now at MIT, he uses the same tools and principles to verify nuclear weapons.

27 Sep 2016

University of Barcelona Researchers Find Simple, Exact Way to Merge Two Black Holes

The merger of two black holes, such as the one which produced the gravitational waves discovered by the LIGO Observatory, is considered an extremely complex process that can only be simulated by the world's most powerful supercomputers.

27 Sep 2016

Next-Generation Dark Matter Detector to Begin Deep-Underground Hunt for Theoretical Particles in 2020

LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ), a next-generation dark matter detector that will be at least 100 times more sensitive than its predecessor, has cleared another approval milestone and is on schedule to begin its deep-underground hunt for theoretical particles known as WIMPs, or weakly interacting massive particles, in 2020.

27 Sep 2016

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New AVA Research and Training Network Looks at Mysterious Particles

MPQ Scientists Observe Emergence of Antiferromagnetic Correlations in Fermionic Atoms

ALMA Discovers Stunning Spiral-Shape Pinwheel of Dust Around Young Star Elias 2-27

Researchers Explore How Magnetic Fluctuations Arise in Unconventional, High-Temperature Superconductors

Japanese Researchers Use ALMA to Observe Massive Star in Neighbouring Dwarf Galaxy

CERN’s LHCb Experiment Could Help Physicists Solve Longstanding Mystery of the Universe

Scientists Identify New Method to Visualize Quantum Behavior of Hot Electrons

Scientists Succeed in Placing Quantum Optical Structure on Scalable Chip

New Experimental Meteoric Ablation Simulator Could Help Answer Questions About Cosmic Dust

Physics Professor Builds World-Class Laser Optics Laboratory in Natural Sciences Building at Umea University

Toshiba and QST Develop Novel Heavy-Ion Radiotherapy Technology to Accurately Track Tumor Motion

Cornell-Led Scientists Awarded $23 Million NSF Grant to Increase Brightness of Charged Particle Beams

NSE Graduate Student Uses Particle Physics to Solve Nuclear Weapon Disarmament Problems

University of Barcelona Researchers Find Simple, Exact Way to Merge Two Black Holes

Next-Generation Dark Matter Detector to Begin Deep-Underground Hunt for Theoretical Particles in 2020

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