BYLINE: Karen McNulty Walsh Newswise — Finding clues to discoveries in the particles streaming from collisions at the future Electron-Ion Collider (EIC), a nuclear physics research facility under construction at…
Category: Particle Physics
Using Helium, Astronomers Blow Certainty Into Early Big Bang Conditions
Newswise — COLUMBUS, Ohio – New observations regarding the composition of distant galaxies reveal insights into the earliest phases of the universe that confirm decades of scientific understanding of the elements…
Developing a System to Make X-ray Free Electron Lasers Even Brighter
The Science Scientists are working on a new concept for developing the brightest artificial X-ray source in the world, called an X-ray laser oscillator. X-ray free-electron lasers (XFEL) are the current strongest…
LZ Sees Surprising Result in Search for Dark Matter
Newswise — The LUX-ZEPLIN experiment (LZ) – supported by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science – has recorded a single particle interaction that researchers have great difficulty explaining…
LZ Sees Surprising Result in Search for Dark Matter
BYLINE: Lauren Biron Newswise — For the better part of a century, people have been trying to understand dark matter. This invisible substance makes up roughly 85% of the mass…
LZ Experiment Sees Surprising Result in Search for Dark Matter
Newswise — For the better part of a century, people have been trying to understand dark matter. This invisible substance makes up roughly 85% of the mass in the universe…
SuperCDMS SNOLAB begins preliminary phase of dark matter hunt
BYLINE: Ali Sundermier Read this story in the SLAC News Center Newswise — In the hunt for one of nature’s most elusive substances – dark matter, which makes up 85%…
Physicist Builds Tools to See Quantum Matter More Clearly
BYLINE: Emily Tomlin Newswise — John Lajoie is a builder—not of buildings or everyday machines, but of detectors with a special purpose. A physicist at the Department of Energy’s (DOE’s)…
Physicists Celebrate World’s Most Versatile Particle Collider
BYLINE: By Karen McNulty Walsh Newswise — What does it take to build the world’s most complex and versatile particle collider? Attendees at a two-day celebration held at the U.S.…
Search in Strange Quark Sector Reveals New Particle Possibilities
Newswise — NEWPORT NEWS, VA – Despite science’s best efforts to classify the vast menagerie of subatomic particles discovered over the past few decades, some exotic varieties defy explanation. Now, nuclear…
