Discovery of Rare Decay Puts Standard Model to Stringent Test
Researchers from the CMS and LHCb experiments at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider presented measurements of the decay of a Bs (pronounced B-sub-s) particle into two…
Researchers from the CMS and LHCb experiments at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider presented measurements of the decay of a Bs (pronounced B-sub-s) particle into two…
Recent analyses from a team of physicists at University of Warsaw suggest that not all elementary particles are subject to the same space-time. Before the…
Physicists have developed a new concept to improve the sensitivity of gravitational-wave detectors. Laser interferometers detect tiny distance changes with high precision. Stray light reduces…
Researchers from Dartmouth College and the University of Sydney are helping move quantum computing closer to reality, demonstrating a technique for storing quantum states with…
Eric Swanson from the University of Pittsburgh gives his viewpoint on two new experiments have detected the signature of a new subatomic particle, Zc(3900). Particle…
In a newly published study, physicists take singularity out of black holes, suggesting that black holes could serve as portals. LSU physicist and Center for…
By merging tiny magnetic whirls, called skyrmions, a team of scientists were able to create artificial magnetic monopoles. A team of researchers from Cologne, Munich,…
An international team of researchers used a method called atomic-scale multilayer sputtering to create iron-platinum alloys with an ordered crystal structure that could be used…
In a new study, researchers demonstrate an improvement of more than two orders of magnitude in the spin coherence time of nitrogen-vacancy centers as compared…
A newly published study details how physicists discovered the first direct evidence of pear-shaped nuclei in exotic atoms, a finding that could help explain why…
A newly published study details how a specially designed “meta-atom” of gold and silicon oxide can transmit light through a wide bandwidth and at a…
UC Santa Barbara researchers developed an all-optical scheme for controlling individual quantum bits in semiconductors using pulses of light, opening up new paths toward the…
In a new study, physicists from the Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley used data from the ALPHA Experiment at CERN to measure antimatter gravity directly,…
A new study from the LHCb collaboration at CERN details the first observation of matter-antimatter asymmetry in the decays of the particle known as the…
SuperCDMS researchers have for the first time observed a concrete hint of a weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP), the particle physicists believe to be behind…
The Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (CDMS) collaboration recently presented its blind-analysis dark matter search results from data taken with silicon detectors during CDMS II operation…
Using a completed section of the NOvA neutrino detector, scientists have begun collecting data from cosmic rays. What will soon be the most powerful neutrino…
New calculations give scientists a better understanding of turbulent processes in regimes that can be found in astrophysical phenomena. The American Nobel Prize Laureate for…