Astronomers Accurately Measure the Mass of Neutrinos for the First Time
Astronomers from the universities of Nottingham and Manchester have accurately measured the mass of neutrinos for the first time. Scientists have solved a major problem…
Particle Physics News
CERN Antimatter Experiment Produces First Beam of Antihydrogen
A newly published study describes the how the ASACUSA experiment at CERN produced a beam of antihydrogen atoms for the first time. The ASACUSA experiment…
LUX Dark Matter Detector Completes First 90-Days of Operation
With its first 90-days of operation completed, researchers at the Large Underground Xenon experiment are reporting that LUX has demonstrated a sensitivity that is better…
Physicists Develop a New Method to Accelerate Charged Particles
Physicists at the Max Planck Institute have developed a new method that uses light to accelerate charged particles, leading the way for more compact particle…
Scientists Use Partial Covariance Mapping to Probe Electron Dynamics
Using a technique called partial covariance mapping, scientists gain new insight into the dynamics of “hollow atom” formation. In a detailed study of how intense…
Physicists Create Coherent Beams of Twisted Light
By using a beam of electrons, a team of accelerator physicists has found a new method to create coherent beams of twisted light. Scientists at…
New Daya Bay Collaboration Results about the Transformations of Neutrinos
Scientists from the Daya Bay Neutrino Experiment have announced the latest results, including high-precision measurement of subatomic shape shifting and new results on differences among…
GERDA Experiment Phase I Results – No New Evidence That Neutrinos Are Their Own Antiparticles
The phase I results from the GERDA experiment have revealed no signal of neutrino-less double beta decay in Ge-76, ruling out an earlier claim for…
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…
New Subatomic Particle Zc(3900) Hints at Four-Quark Matter
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…
Next Generation International Linear Collider Ready for Construction
The Linear Collider Collaboration published its Technical Design Report [PDF] for the next-generation particle accelerator. The International Linear Collider (ILC) is a proposed 31 kilometer electron-positron collider…
Physicists Measure Magnetic Moment of Single Particles of Matter and Antimatter
A research team led by Harvard University physicists has measured the magnetic moment of single particles of matter and antimatter with unprecedented precision. As described…
New Results Indicate That Particle Discovered at LHC Is a Higgs Boson
After further review of the data from July’s particle discovery at the Large Hadron Collider, the new results point to the new particle having the…
The Large Hadron Collider Prepares for Shutdown
On February 14, 2013, the Large Hadron Collider will begin “Long Shutdown 1,” a shutdown period of almost two years during which the LCH will…
Mathematical Model May Explain What Dark Matter Consists Of
University of Oslo’s leading theorist in astroparticle physics, Are Raklev, has launched a model that explains what dark matter may consist of and how one…
Higgs Duality: Contradictory Results At LHC
The latest data presented by scientists on Higgs boson shows that separate measurements of its properties are showing two slightly different masses. The scientists at…
Japan Could Host International Linear Collider
As most of the world is still dealing with the worst economic crisis in decades, Japan is currently being considered as the potential host for…
Black Holes Have Properties That Resemble the Dynamics of Solids and Liquids
New research showing that black holes have properties that resemble the dynamics of both solids and liquids may help scientists better understand black holes and…
