BYLINE: Chris Patrick Newswise — In this International Year of Quantum Science and Technology, physicists worldwide are celebrating a century since the establishment of quantum mechanics. The celebration has brought to…
Category: Particle Physics
MIT Researchers Use Frontier to Model the Density, Pressure Inside Neutron Stars
Newswise — For astrophysicists, neutron stars stand out as objects of irresistible fascination — perhaps, in part, because of how difficult they are to decipher. But calculations conducted on the…
FSU Researchers Share in Breakthrough Prize in Physics for Work at CERN
Newswise — Five Florida State University physicists are part of the international team awarded the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics for work done at the European Organization for Nuclear Research…
AI Is for Accelerators | Newswise
BYLINE: Tamara Dietrich Newswise — NEWPORT NEWS, VA – One of the things that makes the main particle accelerator at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility…
Twist of Light: New Tool May Unlock Gravity, Quantum Mechanics Link
Newswise — A team of physicists has uncovered a surprising new way to explore one of science’s greatest challenges: uniting the two fundamental theories that explain how our universe works…
To Understand a Special Hadron, Researchers Turn to Supercomputers and Quantum Chromodynamics
The Science Newswise — Hadrons are particles formed by quarks and gluons that are bound together by the strong nuclear force. Nuclear scientists need to understand how hadrons behave and interact with other…
Search for Sterile Neutrinos Continues at Nuclear Reactors
Newswise — Neutrinos, elusive fundamental particles, can act as a window into the center of a nuclear reactor, the interior of the earth, or some of the most dynamic objects…
Argonne’s Physicists Are Redefining the Possible
BYLINE: Joseph E. Harmon and Lea E. Radick Newswise — The world’s first controlled, self-sustaining nuclear reaction was achieved at the University of Chicago as part of the Manhattan Project…
Maximal Entanglement Sheds New Light on Particle Creation
Newswise — UPTON, N.Y. — Physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory and Stony Brook University (SBU) have shown that particles produced in collimated sprays called…
Nuclear Physicists Create Scalable Quantum Circuits to Simulate Fundamental Physics
The Science Simulating matter in extreme conditions is critical to answering fundamental questions about nature. The Standard Model of particle physics provides a set of equations that can explain these mysteries. However,…
