BYLINE: By Karen McNulty Walsh and Kelly Lazzaro Newswise — Scientists conducting research at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), Alternating Gradient Synchrotron (AGS), and the supporting accelerator complex at…
Category: Physics
Researchers Use Argonne Supercomputer to Illuminate the Subatomic Particle That Helps Hold Matter Together
BYLINE: Nils Heinonen Newswise — High-resolution 3D images of the pion offer new insight into how this key particle forms the atomic nuclei of all visible matter. A team of researchers has…
UAH Researchers Find New Method to “Weigh” Neighboring Galaxies Using Pulsars as Ultra-Precise Gravitational Probes
BYLINE: Russ Nelson Newswise — Researchers at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of The University of Alabama System, have identified a promising new method for measuring…
DUNE Will Use Liquid-Argon Time Projection Chamber Technology Both Near and Far
BYLINE: Zachary Burton and Anne Heavey Newswise — Physicists discovered decades ago that odd little particles called neutrinos, of which there are three known “flavors,” morph between these flavors as…
Fermilab Completes Its Part in Upgrading World’s Most Powerful X-Ray Laser
BYLINE: Madeleine O’Keefe Newswise — The U.S. Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory has completed building and delivering the final component it is providing to the high-energy upgrade of…
DUNE Collaborators Advance Breakthrough Power-Over-Fiber Technology
BYLINE: Zachary Burton Newswise — Inside an unassuming building on the campus of the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology in Rapid City, a small research team is tackling…
Fermilab Marks Major Milestone for World-Leading DUNE Experiment
BYLINE: Tracy Marc Newswise — Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and the Sanford Underground Research Facility held an event today in Lead, S.D., celebrating a significant milestone for the most ambitious neutrino research…
Opposites Annihilate: Presenting Antimatter Research
Newswise — NEWPORT NEWS, VA – A high school field trip to a particle accelerator set Tyler Hague’s future in motion. Nearly two decades later, he is bringing his antimatter…
Galaxy Cluster Relaxed Now, but Was Wild in the Past
BYLINE: Megan Watzke Newswise — The galaxy cluster Abell 2029 is sometimes described as “the most relaxed cluster in the Universe.” This moniker does not arise from some sort of…
Using Nuclear Shapes to Study How Particles Flow in Collisions Between Light Ions
The Science Newswise — Physicists are searching for signs that even the smallest high-energy nuclear collisions can create a hot, dense state of matter known as the quark-gluon plasma (QGP). These small…
