Two beams of protons zipped around the Large Hadron Collider on Friday, marking the return of the world’s largest particle accelerator after over three years on hiatus. The European Organisation for Nuclear Research, or CERN, spent the past three ye...
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The Electron Collider (EIC) investigates the internal structure of existing nuclear material. The electrons that collide with the ions exchange virtual photons for the nuclear particles, helping scientists “see” the inside of the nuclear...
AdvertisementThe entire island of Manhattan can fit within the bounds of the monstrous, nearly nine-mile loop drawn out by the CERN particle accelerator in Switzerland. Of course, the purpose of that apparatus is to re-create the conditions found in...
Figure 1. Distribution of ultra-high energy gamma rays (yellow dots) detected by Tibetan ASγ experiments in the galactic coordinate system. They are clearly concentrated along the galactic disc. The gray shaded area shows what is outside the field o...
AdvertisementEvery day, in dozens of synchrotrons around the globe, electrons are whipped around in circular storage rings to provoke them into emitting X-rays, useful for imaging materials, identifying chemical-reaction products and determining crys...
A simplified version of Burns design.View PicturesGetty ImagesA NASA engineer has proposed designs for an in-space rocket engine that is propelled by a massive particle accelerator instead of fuel.The engineer, David Burns believes the technologywhil...
A table-top particle accelerator has been built by French physicists, who used a pair of laser beams to precisely control the acceleration of electrons within a plasma.Injecting laser beams into a plasma can create huge electric fields that accelerat...
It could be the perfect Christmas gift for physics geeks a table-top particle accelerator.Injecting laser beams into a plasma can create huge electric fields that accelerate the plasma’s electrons to high energies over relatively short distance...
The LHC will smash protons together and could test string theory (Illustration: LHC/FNAL)String theory could be ruled out by experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), a particle accelerator scheduled to open by the end of 2007, a new study says...
A metre-long plasma-powered particle accelerator can boost electrons’ energy to the same degree as a conventional machine 3-kilometres-long, experiments show. For all it does, the diminutive accelerator is also relatively simple, consisting of...
Long ago, antimatter all but vanished from existence, allowing matter to predominate and form the stars and planets of the universe. Exactly why this happened has been a mystery, but a particle accelerator in Japan may have found a new clue, and one...
A variety of sapphire tubes, also known as capillaries.Berkeley LabParticle accelerators play a fundamental role in everything from nuclear physics to modern medicine. A team in California is working on a way to shrink the massive devices.Particle ac...
lowSlideCount) { %>of/g, '') %>Pascal BoegliGetty Images Particle accelerators like the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland are some of the largest and most complex machines ever built. They have thousands of intricate parts that all have...
lowSlideCount) { %>of/g, '') %> Step 1CYCLOTRONThe magnet-packed particle accelerator weighs 220 tons but is only 18 feet wide and 8 feet high.Step 2BEAM LINEProtons moving at almost the speed of light are deflected and focused by magnets ...
AdvertisementNASA's Cassini spacecraft has spotted solar particles moving at incredible speeds near Saturn, giving scientists a rare up-close look at phenomena that occur during dramatic star explosions.The particles flowed from the sun during a...
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As electrons flow through this channel etched in a silicon chip, laser light (shown in yellow and purple) accelerates the particles to high speeds. Credit: Neil SapraAdvertisementIn a full-scale particle accelerator, electrons fly along a kilometers-...
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world's largest particle collider: a marvel of modern particle physics that has enabled researchers to plumb the depths of reality. In 2012, the massive atom smasher, a 16.5-mi...
Nanoparticles sound a bit like science fiction to minds of your average hacker — too esoteric and out of reach to be something we might get to work with in our own lairs — but [Ben Krasnow] of [Applied Science] over on...
Two beams of protons zipped around the Large Hadron Collider on Friday, marking the return of the world’s largest particle accelerator after over three years on hiatus. The European Organisation for Nuclear Research, or...
CERN is the European laboratory for particle physics located near Geneva in Switzerland. If you see a news headline about exotic new subatomic particles, the chances are the discovery was made at CERN. A recent example o...
The project was designed to see if spectroscopy in a helium bath was possible at all—a proof of concept for future experiments that would use even more exotic hybrid atoms.But Sótér was curious about how the hybrid at...
Frank Wilczek, a Nobel Prizewinning theoretical physicist and author, has been announced as the recipient of the 2022 Templeton Prize, which is valued at more than $1.3 million. The annual award honors those who harness ...
Frank Wilczek, a Nobel Prizewinning theoretical physicist and author, has been announced as the recipient of the 2022 Templeton Prize, which is valued at more than $1.3 million. The annual award honors those who harness ...
Nanoparticles sound a bit like science fiction to minds of your average hacker — too esoteric and out of reach to be something we might get to work with in our own lairs — but [Ben Krasnow] of [Applied Science] over on...
Black holes are powerful cosmic engines. They provide the energy behind quasars and other active galactic nuclei (AGNs). This is due to the interaction of matter with its powerful gravitational and magnetic fields.Techni...
People are 1,000 times more likely to get COVID-19 from the airborne viral particles they breathe than from the surfaces they touch, according to a study. The researchers from the University of Michigan (U-M) in the US c...
Darker, iron-rich dust would absorb the Sun's heat and warm the surrounding air, while lighter, clay-rich particles would do the opposite. “Different dusts have different properties — they're acidic, they...
When hundreds of physicists gathered on a Zoom call in late February to discuss their experiments results, none of them knew what they had found. Like doctors in a clinical trial, the researchers at the Muon g-2 experime...
NEW YORKThe city that never sleeps was mostly asleep. The bars were closed. But at 4:45 A.M., inside a library on Columbia University's Manhattan campus, Michael Tuts was getting ready to pop the champagne.The physic...
The world's largest and most powerful particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN has returning to science operations after being shutdown in 2018 for a planned series of upgrades. At 3.46 pm IST, ...
