BYLINE: Tracy Marc Newswise — Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and the Sanford Underground Research Facility held an event today in Lead, S.D., celebrating a significant milestone for the most ambitious neutrino research…
Category: Particle Physics
Opposites Annihilate: Presenting Antimatter Research
Newswise — NEWPORT NEWS, VA – A high school field trip to a particle accelerator set Tyler Hague’s future in motion. Nearly two decades later, he is bringing his antimatter…
Galaxy Cluster Relaxed Now, but Was Wild in the Past
BYLINE: Megan Watzke Newswise — The galaxy cluster Abell 2029 is sometimes described as “the most relaxed cluster in the Universe.” This moniker does not arise from some sort of…
Using Nuclear Shapes to Study How Particles Flow in Collisions Between Light Ions
The Science Newswise — Physicists are searching for signs that even the smallest high-energy nuclear collisions can create a hot, dense state of matter known as the quark-gluon plasma (QGP). These small…
From Ghost Particle to Cosmic Messenger
Newswise — By 1970, fourteen years after Los Alamos scientists first proved the existence of the neutrino, they knew something was amiss: an underground neutrino experiment built inside the Homestake…
Quantum Metallurgy: Electron Crystals Deform and Melt
Photos Key takeaways Electron crystals, also called charge density waves, are clusters of electrons neatly arranged with uniform spacing, similar to the atomic structure of crystals. Researchers at University of…
A Comprehensive Theory for Nematoelasticity
Theorists at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign address an experimental paradox by developing a general theory uniting a kind of order known as electronic nematicity with a crystal’s elasticity. Newswise —…
From Wobble to Breakthrough Prize
BYLINE: Shannon Brescher Shea: Social media manager and senior writer/editor in the Office of Science’s Office of Communications and Public Affairs. Newswise — A small wobble may not seem like…
Physicists Solve Riddle That Has Puzzled Scientists for Decades
Newswise — An international team of physicists has achieved a breakthrough in understanding something that has puzzled scientists for decades: the discrepancy between experimental measurements and theoretical predictions of magnetic…
Artificial Intelligence Comes to Particle Detectors Through NEUROPix
BYLINE: Galen Fader Newswise — Scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory are developing AI-enabled pixel detectors that can analyze particle-collision data directly at the source. The approach could help particle-physics…
