BYLINE: Michelle Alvarez Newswise — NEWPORT NEWS, VA – Provakar Datta, currently a postdoctoral researcher with the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (LBNL), arrived at the DOE’s…
Category: Particle Physics
Technology from Columbia Engineering Powering Collaborative Breakthroughs
Newswise — The Large Hadron Collider is about to get an upgrade. When it’s back online, the massive instrument will use radiation-hardened chips to measure 1.5 billion particle collisions per…
UAH Researcher Wins $681K NSF CAREER Award to Study the Interaction of Shockwaves and Solar Wind Turbulence in the Sun’s Heliosphere
BYLINE: Russ Nelson Newswise — Dr. Lingling Zhao, an assistant professor in the Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research (CSPAR) at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), has…
Scientists and Engineers Craft Radio Telescope Bound for the Moon
Newswise — UPTON, N.Y. — The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory has completed the “major item of equipment” phase for the Lunar Surface Electromagnetics Experiment-Night (LuSEE-Night), a…
‘Standard Candle’ Particle Measurement Enables Hunt for Hybrid Mesons
BYLINE: Matt Cahill Newswise — NEWPORT NEWS, VA – A rather unassuming particle is playing an important role in the hunt for subatomic oddities. Similar to protons and neutrons, mesons…
New Technique for Understanding the Nature of Neutrinos Demonstrates an Important Technological Milestone
The Science Newswise — The nature of the neutrino’s mass is no small matter. It is directly connected with major questions in nuclear physics, particle physics, cosmology, and the origins of matter in the…
Discovery of ‘Mini Halo’ Points to How the Early Universe Was Formed
Newswise — Astronomers have uncovered a vast cloud of energetic particles — a ‘mini halo’ — surrounding one of the most distant galaxy clusters ever observed, marking a major step…
2025 Annual RHIC & AGS Users’ Meeting Celebrates Past and Looks to the Future
Newswise — Nuclear physicists, theorists, students, and others gathered for the 2025 RHIC & AGS Users’ Meeting at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory May 20-23 to…
Polarized Target a Perfect Fit for Measuring Spinning Particles
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…
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…
