Scientists Find No Evidence of Cosmic Textures in Space
Scientists have completed their search for the existence of knots in the fabric of space using data from NASA’s WMAP satellite, finding no evidence of…
Particle Physics News
Fermilab Narrows the Gap Between the Masses of Neutrinos and Antineutrinos
MINOS scientists at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory revealed the world’s most precise measurement of the parameter called delta m squared, closing the measured gap…
Physicists Realize New Quasiparticle in Ultracold Quantum Gas
Physicists at the University of Innsbruck have succeeded for the first time in experimentally realizing a new quasiparticle, a repulsive polaron, in an ultracold quantum…
MAJORANA, the Underground Experiment that Could Rewrite the Standard Model
Searching for the answer to the question of whether neutrinos are their own antiparticles, the MAJORANA Collaboration has an underground experiment that could rewrite the…
Dark Matter in Form of WIMPs Hits Humans Once a Minute
New calculations have shown that the average human gets hit by a particle of dark matter about once a minute. Dark matter, which is supposed…
Discussing the Search for the Higgs Particle
Does the Higgs boson particle exits? What happens if we find it and what if we don’t? These are just a few of the questions…
Physicists Use Cheap Colliders to Probe for Heavy Photons
A three-week experiment is set to start on April 24th at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility in Newport News, Virginia, in which electrons will…
Quantum Interference Shown Experimentally in Larger Molecules
Particle-wave duality is one of the most mysterious facets of quantum physics. It states that every quantum object has properties of both a wave and…
ICARUS Experiment Claims Neutrinos Aren’t Faster Than Light
A new Italian experiment indicates that neutrinos stay within the speed of light. The findings were posted on arXiv.org as a preprint, and contradict rival…
New Type of Neutrino Oscillation Discovered at Daya Bay
After tens of thousands of interactions of electron antineutrinos at Daya Bay, data revealed a new type of neutrino oscillation, which was measured with unmatched…
More Data of Elusive Higgs Boson from Defunct US Tevatron Collider
The elusive Higgs boson might have been spotted in the data collected by the Tevatron, a now shuttered collider at Fermilab in Batavia, Illinois. The…
Dynamics of a System of Ultracold Potassium Atoms
A new publication demonstrates that the dynamics of a system of ultracold potassium atoms, trapped in an optical lattice, depend surprisingly strongly on the particle…
Evidence of Elusive Majorana Fermions Raises Possibilities for Quantum Computing
It’s been reported that researchers in the Leo Kouwenhoven group, based out of the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, might have beaten several…
Possible Mistakes Found in Faster Than Light Neutrino Measurement
Back in September, the revolutionary claim that the OPERA collaboration had measured neutrinos traveling faster than the speed has light is now in doubt, as…
Quantum Entanglement of 8 Photons Successfully Accomplished by Physicists
In quantum mechanics, entanglement allows two or more particles separated in space to have the same physical properties, which are correlated. This means that if…
Higgs Boson Signals Gain Strength at Large Hadron Collider
In December, it was announced that the two main experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), which is still the world’s largest and highest-energy particle…
Quantum Physicists Take a Step Forward in Understanding Quantum Inseparability
Quantum physicists from the University of Bristol and Hungarian Academy of Sciences have teamed together on new research that takes a step forward in understanding…
Lab Experiment to Determine if Antimatter Weighs More than Baryonic Matter
Physicists at the University of California, Riverside, have set forward lab experiments to determine if antimatter behaves differently in gravity than baryonic matter. This could…
