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New Understanding of How Particles are Produced in RHIC Collisions

UPTON, NY-Peering into the seething soup of primordial matter created in particle collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC, https://www.bnl.gov/rhic/)-an "atom smasher" dedicated to nuclear physics research at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory-scientists have come to a new understanding of how particles are produced in these collisions. This understanding represents a paradigm shift consistent with the presence of a saturated state of gluons, super-dense fields of the glue-like particles that bind the building blocks of ordinary matter.

8 Dec 2015

Ferromagnetic Detector Detects Spin Current on Topological Insulator Surfaces at Room Temperature

Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology have for the first time reported the electrical detection of spin current on topological insulator surfaces at room temperature by employing a ferromagnetic detector. The findings have been published in the journal Nano Letters.

8 Dec 2015

ALMA Discovers Tenuous Molecular Gas Cloud

Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have discovered the most tenuous molecular gas ever observed. They detected the absorption of radio waves by gas clouds in front of bright radio sources. This radio shadow revealed the composition and conditions of diffuse gas in the Milky Way galaxy.

7 Dec 2015

DFG to Continue Funding for Low-Energy Frontier of the Standard Model: From Quarks and Gluons to Hadrons and Nuclei

The German Research Foundation (DFG) will continue its funding for the Collaborative Research Center (CRC) 1044 "The Low-Energy Frontier of the Standard Model: From Quarks and Gluons to Hadrons and Nuclei" at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz for a further four years by making approximately EUR 12.5 million available from January 1, 2016 for research on fundamental aspects of the subatomic world. The participating researchers work at the Mainz particle accelerator MAMI while also developing experiments to run on the future particle accelerator MESA. In addition, the Mainz-based team will continue to cooperate closely with the BES III Experiment in Beijing in China.

7 Dec 2015

Nest of Monstrous Baby Galaxies Discovered 11.5 Billion Light-Years Away

Astronomers discovered a nest of monstrous baby galaxies 11.5 billion light-years away using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). The young galaxies seem to reside at the junction of gigantic filaments in a web of dark matter. These findings are important for understanding how monstrous galaxies like these are formed and how they evolve in to huge elliptical galaxies.

7 Dec 2015

Red Giant's Clumps and Plumes of Hot Dust had Confused Generations of Astronomers

It is the brightest infrared star in the Northern sky, but a University of Sydney student has found that astronomers have been mistakenly interpreting the dust in the environment of a famous star that lies 450 light years from Earth.

7 Dec 2015

Magnetic Fields Detected Just Outside the Event Horizon of Milky Way's Central Black Hole

Most people think of black holes as giant vacuum cleaners sucking in everything that gets too close. But the supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies are more like cosmic engines, converting energy from infalling matter into intense radiation that can outshine the combined light from all surrounding stars. If the black hole is spinning, it can generate strong jets that blast across thousands of light-years and shape entire galaxies. These black hole engines are thought to be powered by magnetic fields. For the first time, astronomers have detected magnetic fields just outside the event horizon of the black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy.

7 Dec 2015

Astronomers Find Faintest Object Ever Seen in the Early Universe

Astronomers harnessing the combined power of NASA’s Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes have found the faintest object ever seen in the early universe. It existed about 400 million years after the big bang, 13.8 billion years ago.

7 Dec 2015

Moon's Surface and Lunar Crust's Local Magnetic Fields Reflect Solar Wind

The lunar space environment is much more active than previously assumed. The solar wind is reflected from the surface and crustal magnetic fields of the moon which has effects on for instance lunar water levels. This according to a dissertation by Charles Lue at the Swedish Institute of Space Physics and Umeå University in Sweden.

1 Dec 2015

Skyrmions Could Also Exist in Ferroelectrics, Finds New Study

New theoretical physics research shows that swirling particles known as skyrmions, which have been found in magnetic systems, can also exist in ferroelectrics.

1 Dec 2015

Researchers Simulate Rapidly Rotating Collapsed Stellar Core

When certain massive stars use up all of their fuel and collapse onto their cores, explosions 10 to 100 times brighter than the average supernova occur. Exactly how this happens is not well understood. Astrophysicists from Caltech, UC Berkeley, the Albert Einstein Institute, and the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics have used the National Science Foundation's Blue Waters supercomputer to perform three-dimensional computer simulations to fill in an important missing piece of our understanding of what drives these blasts.

1 Dec 2015

Researchers Generate 3D Simulations of Deep Jet Streams, Storms on Jupiter And Saturn

A University of Alberta researcher has successfully generated 3D simulations of deep jet streams and storms on Jupiter and Saturn, helping to satiate our eternal quest for knowledge of planetary dynamics. The results facilitate a deeper understanding of planetary weather and provide clues to the dynamics of Earth's weather patterns evidenced in jet streams and ocean currents.

1 Dec 2015

FAU, SK Telecom Enter Agreement to Develop Secure Communications Using Quantum Physics

Florida Atlantic University and SK Telecom, the largest telecommunications company in South Korea, have entered into a research and education agreement to collaborate on the development of secure communications using quantum physics.

1 Dec 2015

Supercomputer Simulations Reveal Unique Turbulence That Fuels Stellar Explosions

All the stars in the sky will eventually die – and some will really go out with a bang.

1 Dec 2015

MPQ Scientist Awarded ERC Starting Grant for Study on Rydberg Dressed Quantum Many-Body Systems

Dr. Christian Groß, a young research scientist working in the Quantum Many-Body Systems Division of Professor Immanuel Bloch at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics (Garching near Munich), has been selected by the European Research Council as one of the recipients of an ERC Starting Grant for the year 2015.

30 Nov 2015

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New Understanding of How Particles are Produced in RHIC Collisions

Ferromagnetic Detector Detects Spin Current on Topological Insulator Surfaces at Room Temperature

ALMA Discovers Tenuous Molecular Gas Cloud

DFG to Continue Funding for Low-Energy Frontier of the Standard Model: From Quarks and Gluons to Hadrons and Nuclei

Nest of Monstrous Baby Galaxies Discovered 11.5 Billion Light-Years Away

Red Giant's Clumps and Plumes of Hot Dust had Confused Generations of Astronomers

Magnetic Fields Detected Just Outside the Event Horizon of Milky Way's Central Black Hole

Astronomers Find Faintest Object Ever Seen in the Early Universe

Moon's Surface and Lunar Crust's Local Magnetic Fields Reflect Solar Wind

Skyrmions Could Also Exist in Ferroelectrics, Finds New Study

Researchers Simulate Rapidly Rotating Collapsed Stellar Core

Researchers Generate 3D Simulations of Deep Jet Streams, Storms on Jupiter And Saturn

FAU, SK Telecom Enter Agreement to Develop Secure Communications Using Quantum Physics

Supercomputer Simulations Reveal Unique Turbulence That Fuels Stellar Explosions

MPQ Scientist Awarded ERC Starting Grant for Study on Rydberg Dressed Quantum Many-Body Systems

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