Newswise — UPTON, N.Y. — Lijuan Ruan, a physicist at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, is one of nine individuals receiving the Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award…
Category: Particle Physics
UAH astrophysicist Sukanya Chakrabarti elected Fellow of American Physical Society
BYLINE: Russ Nelson Newswise — An astrophysicist whose research is helping scientists uncover the hidden structure of the universe has earned one of the physics community’s most selective professional honors.…
RHIC Team Receives Prestigious DOE Secretary Achievement Award
Newswise — UPTON, N.Y. — A group of 11 physicists representing the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) Discovery and Innovation Team at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National…
RHIC Reports New Data from High-density Nuclear Matter
UPTON, N.Y. — Scientists using the STAR detector to study particle collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) have found an intriguing dip in their data in a relatively…
Designing Detector Technologies for Particles — and Fraud
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…
Chula and Thai Research Partners Renew JUNO Collaboration to Advance High-Energy Physics
Newswise — Chulalongkorn University and three leading Thai research institutions have renewed their collaboration on a major international neutrino experiment, strengthening Thailand’s participation in high-energy physics research. Chulalongkorn University’s Faculty…
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…
