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Researchers Study Materials Under Extreme Pressure Utilizing Neutron Diamond Anvil Cells

Researchers with Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s (ORNL’s) Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) have developed technology to squeeze materials with a million times the pressure of the earth’s atmosphere while studying them with neutrons. When they bombard these materials with neutrons, the materials provide an unprecedented picture of the changing nature of matter under extreme pressure.

14 Aug 2015

Baryon Antibaryon Symmetry Experiment Reports Most Precise Charge-to-Mass Ratio Comparison of Protons to Antiprotons

In a paper published today in Nature, the Baryon Antibaryon Symmetry Experiment (BASE1) at CERN2's Antiproton Decelerator (AD), reports the most precise comparison of the charge-to-mass ratio of the proton to that of its antimatter equivalent, the antiproton. The charge-to-mass ratio — an important property of particles — can be measured by observing the oscillation of a particle in a magnetic field. The new result shows no difference between the proton and the antiproton, with a four-fold improvement in the energy resolution compared with previous measurements.

13 Aug 2015

Researchers Study Interaction of Strong Laser Pulses with Glass Nanoparticles

A team of physicists and chemists from the Laboratory of Attosecond Physics at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität and the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics has studied the interaction of light with tiny glass particles.

13 Aug 2015

New Technique to Find Quantum Dots

An international team of scientists, including Dr Luca Sapienza from the University of Southampton, have developed a new technique for finding quantum dots.

13 Aug 2015

Researchers Make Most Precise Measurements of Charge-to-Mass Ratio of Protons and Antiprotons

The work, published in Nature, was carried out using CERN's Antiproton Decelerator, a device that provides low-energy antiprotons for antimatter studies.

13 Aug 2015

Physicists Develop Method for Addressing Individual Neutral Atoms for Quantum Computing

For any computer, being able to manipulate information is essential, but for quantum computing, singling out one data location without influencing any of the surrounding locations is difficult. Now, a team of Penn State physicists has a method for addressing individual neutral atoms without changing surrounding atoms.

13 Aug 2015

South Pole-Based Icecube Experiment Detects Evidence of Fourth Ultra-High Energy Neutrino

Evidence of a fourth ultra-high energy neutrino—the highest-energy neutrino yet—has been detected by the South Pole-based IceCube experiment, a project that Berkeley Lab researchers helped build and to which they currently contribute analysis.

13 Aug 2015

Neutrinos May Provide Key to the Evolution of the Universe

Every second, a trillion neutrinos from the sun and other celestial objects pass through our bodies like we’re invisible. And while neutrinos are the most abundant subatomic particles with mass in the universe –– a billion times more than those that make up the planets, stars and humans –– they so rarely interact with other matter that they are poorly understood and tricky to detect.

13 Aug 2015

MicroBooNE Detector Records Images of Tracks of Cosmic Muons

A school bus-sized detector packed with 170 tons of liquid argon has seen its first particle footprints.

13 Aug 2015

Successful Production of Holmium Samples Could Enable Sensitive Measurement of Neutrino Mass

To measure the mass of neutrinos, scientists study radioactive decays in which they are emitted. An essential ingredient is the decay energy which corresponds to the mass difference between the mother and daughter nuclei. This decay energy must be known with highest precision.

13 Aug 2015

Researchers Successfully Implement Superposition of Quantum Gates in the Lab

Since its conception, quantum mechanics has defied our natural way of thinking, and it has forced physicists to come to grips with peculiar ideas. Although they may be difficult to digest, quantum phenomena are real.

12 Aug 2015

Researchers Perform Precision Measurements of Magnetic Properties of Francium Nucleus

Precise information about the magnetic properties of nuclei is critical for studies of what’s known as the ‘weak force.’ While people do not feel this force in the same way they feel electricity or gravity, its effects are universal.

12 Aug 2015

Short-Baseline Neutrino Program Uses Three Detectors Positioned Along One of Fermilab's Neutrino Beams

In 1995, physicists working on the Liquid Scintillator Neutrino Detector, or LSND, at Los Alamos National Laboratory stumbled upon some curious results.

12 Aug 2015

Astronomers Identify Smallest Supermassive Black Hole at Center of RGG 118 Galaxy

Astronomers using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the 6.5-meter Clay Telescope in Chile have identified the smallest supermassive black hole ever detected in the center of a galaxy. This oxymoronic object could provide clues to how larger black holes formed along with their host galaxies 13 billion years or more in the past.

12 Aug 2015

Astrophysics Professor to Render Modern Rethink to Einstein’s Theory at Sydney Science Festival

Warp drives might be the stuff of science fiction, but they could be a step closer to reality if we look to Einstein's theory of gravity, according to a University of Sydney researcher.

12 Aug 2015

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Researchers Study Materials Under Extreme Pressure Utilizing Neutron Diamond Anvil Cells

Baryon Antibaryon Symmetry Experiment Reports Most Precise Charge-to-Mass Ratio Comparison of Protons to Antiprotons

Researchers Study Interaction of Strong Laser Pulses with Glass Nanoparticles

New Technique to Find Quantum Dots

Researchers Make Most Precise Measurements of Charge-to-Mass Ratio of Protons and Antiprotons

Physicists Develop Method for Addressing Individual Neutral Atoms for Quantum Computing

South Pole-Based Icecube Experiment Detects Evidence of Fourth Ultra-High Energy Neutrino

Neutrinos May Provide Key to the Evolution of the Universe

MicroBooNE Detector Records Images of Tracks of Cosmic Muons

Successful Production of Holmium Samples Could Enable Sensitive Measurement of Neutrino Mass

Researchers Successfully Implement Superposition of Quantum Gates in the Lab

Researchers Perform Precision Measurements of Magnetic Properties of Francium Nucleus

Short-Baseline Neutrino Program Uses Three Detectors Positioned Along One of Fermilab's Neutrino Beams

Astronomers Identify Smallest Supermassive Black Hole at Center of RGG 118 Galaxy

Astrophysics Professor to Render Modern Rethink to Einstein’s Theory at Sydney Science Festival

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