Newswise — In chemistry, a molecule or ion is said to be chiral if it cannot be superposed on to its mirror image by any combination of rotations, translations, or…
Category: Particle Physics
Using particle showers to scan the interior of structures
Newswise — Earth is constantly being struck by cosmic particles. High-energy muons can easily penetrate several meters of steel or concrete. A team at the German independent research institute Helmholtz-Zentrum…
New Driver for Shapes of Small Quark-Gluon Plasma Drops?
Newswise — UPTON, NY—New measurements of how particles flow from collisions of different types of particles at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) have provided new insights into the origin…
Headlines involving the fascinating (and perilous) world of oceanography and marine biology can be viewed on the Marine Science channel
The recent tragic loss of the Titan submersible in the depths of the North Atlantic has brought the fascinating (and very dangerous) world of Oceanography and Marine Science to the…
Then and Now / 2012 Early Career Award Winner
WHAT DID THE 2012 EARLY CAREER AWARD ALLOW YOU TO DO? Why is there something instead of nothing? What is the origin of mass in the universe? These are the…
Scientists Increase Electron-Phonon Interaction in Thin Strontium Ruthenate
Newswise — Electrons inside crystals interact closely with phonons, defined as the discrete unit of crystal vibrations. The electron–phonon coupling strength is an important fundamental physical quantity in solid state…
Study Reveals a New Finding Helping to Solve the “Spin Crisis”
Newswise — STONY BROOK, N.Y., June 21, 2023 — New research findings published in Physical Review Letters provides theorists with new input for calculating how much gluons—the gluelike particles that…
STAR Physicists Track Sequential ‘Melting’ of Upsilons
The Science Scientists use the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), a Department of Energy user facility, to recreate and study the hot particle soup that existed in the very early universe. Recent…
Getting to the Bottom of When the Smallest Meson Melts
The Science Theorists have performed calculations to predict the temperature at which bottomonium mesons will melt. Bottomonium mesons are particles made of one of the six types of quark: a…
Unveiling Quantum Gravity: IceCube & Fermi Results
Newswise — In a Nature Astronomy publication today, a research team from the University of Naples “Federico II,” the University of Wroclaw, and the University of Bergen analyzed a quantum-gravity…
