The Z Machine Generates Pressures so Intense That It Can Melt Diamonds
Diamond is one of the toughest, naturally occurring materials found on Earth. Now, the Z machine at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico, can…
Particle Physics News
Looking Back at the Decades-Long Search for Higgs Boson
With yesterday’s announcement of the likely discovery of the Higgs boson, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory takes a moment to reflect on how we got to…
CERN Announces Discovery of Higgs-Like Particle in the 125 GeV Range
To much fanfare and a packed press room, CERN physicists announced in the early morning of July 4th the discovery of a new particle that…
Final Results on the Higgs Particle From Tevatron
Two days before the announcement of the latest Higgs-search results from the Large Hadron Collider, scientists from the CDF and DZero collaborations have found their…
CERN to Announce the Latest Results from ATLAS and CMS
With the latest results from ATLAS and CMS set to be announced on July 4, there is a lot of speculation and excitement about what…
Higgs Boson Might Have Been Discovered by LHC High Energy Physicists
In the high energy physics community, rumor and speculation is rife that Large Hadron Collider scientists will announce the discovery of the Higgs boson during…
BaBar Data Suggests Possible Flaws in the Standard Model
Initial results from BaBar data suggest that a particular type of particle decay called “B to D-star-tau-nu” happens more often than the Standard Model says…
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…
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…