Newswise — Zholents was honored for his work on the theory of optical stochastic cooling. Alexander Zholents, a senior physicist at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory…
Category: Particle Physics
Advisory panel issues field-defining recommendations for investments in particle physics research
Newswise — Yesterday marked the release of a highly anticipated report from the Particle Physics Project Prioritization Panel (P5), unveiling an exciting new roadmap for unlocking the secrets of the…
Advisory Panel Issues Field-Defining Recommendations for U.S. Government Investments in Particle Physics Research
The following news release on the 2023 Particle Physics Project Prioritization Panel (P5) report is based on one issued today by the American Physical Society (APS) with added content specific to the U.S. Department…
Researchers show an old law still holds for quirky quantum materials
Newswise — Long before researchers discovered the electron and its role in generating electrical current, they knew about electricity and were exploring its potential. One thing they learned early on…
Parsing the Puzzle of Nucleon Spin
Newswise — NEWPORT NEWS, VA – Alexandre Deur has spent his career studying the mystifying spin structure of the nucleon — which is also one of the primary missions of…
Theory Offers a High-Resolution View of Quarks Inside Protons
The Science Newswise — Protons contain two up quarks and one down quark. New calculations predicting the spatial distributions of the charges, momentum, and other properties of the quarks within…
Experimental proof of hopfions in crystals reveals new tech possibilities.
Newswise — Hopfions, magnetic spin structures predicted decades ago, have become a hot and challenging research topic in recent years. In a study published in Nature today, the first experimental evidence is…
Afroditi Papadopoulou seeks to unlock the mysteries of matter
Newswise — Common but elusive, the tiny particles known as neutrinos have sparked many questions among scientists since they were first discovered nearly 70 years ago. Afroditi Papadopoulou has joined…
LLNL leads initiative to advance muon-based imaging
Newswise — Today we can see inside seemingly impossible places—nuclear reactors, volcanoes, tsunamis, hurricanes, and Egypt’s Great Pyramid of Giza—thanks to muon imaging. This technique uses naturally occurring subatomic particles…
From nanoplastics to airborne toxins: Pollution stories for media.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), air pollution is responsible for 6.7 million premature deaths each year. This includes both outdoor air pollution and indoor air pollution from cooking,…
