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…
Category: Particle Physics
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…
Noise-free comms via structured light, say researchers
Newswise — The patterns of light hold tremendous promise for a large encoding alphabet in optical communications, but progress is hindered by their susceptibility to distortion, such as in atmospheric…
University of Minnesota theoretical physicists help expand the search for new particle
Newswise — One of the most high-profile mysteries in physics today is what scientists refer to as the “Strong CP Problem.” Stemming from the puzzling phenomenon that neutrons do not…
Calculation Shows Why Heavy Quarks Get Caught up in the Flow
Newswise — UPTON, NY—Using some of the world’s most powerful supercomputers, a group of theorists has produced a major advance in the field of nuclear physics—a calculation of the “heavy…
