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China launches high intensity low energy heavy-ion beam facility
1 week, 5 days ago

China launches high intensity low energy heavy-ion beam facility

China Daily  

The schematic diagram of the Low Energy high intensity heavy ion Accelerator Facility. The Low Energy High Intensity Heavy Ion Accelerator Facility, or LEAF, constructed by the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Institute of Modern Physics in Lanzhou, Gansu province, began operations this week, according to researchers. "Chinese scientists have already used LEAF to produce ion beams with an intensity of …

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China launches high intensity low energy heavy-ion beam facility
1 week, 5 days ago

China launches high intensity low energy heavy-ion beam facility

China Daily  

The schematic diagram of the Low Energy high intensity heavy ion Accelerator Facility. The Low Energy High Intensity Heavy Ion Accelerator Facility, or LEAF, constructed by the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Institute of Modern Physics in Lanzhou, Gansu province, began operations this week, according to researchers. "Chinese scientists have already used LEAF to produce ion beams with an intensity of …

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New giant particle collider 'right option for science': next CERN chief
1 month, 2 weeks ago

New giant particle collider 'right option for science': next CERN chief

Raw Story  

The next head of Europe's CERN physics laboratory said Thursday that he favored moving forward with plans for a giant particle collider far more powerful than the collider that discovered the famous "God particle". "Scientifically, I am convinced it is the right option," Mark Thomson, whom CERN has tapped to be its next director-general, said of preliminary plans for the …

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Nobel Laureate Samuel Ting Honored for Scientific Breakthroughs in November Revolution of Particle Physics
2 months ago

Nobel Laureate Samuel Ting Honored for Scientific Breakthroughs in November Revolution of Particle Physics

China Daily  

Nobel laureate Samuel Ting is recognized for his contributions to particle physics. His discovery of the J particle and charm quark in 1976 was a major breakthrough in the field. The November Revolution, which Ting's discovery was a part of, is considered one of the most important scientific revolutions of the 20th century. The CAS president expresses gratitude and hopes …

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Physics pioneer, 98, finally honoured 75 years after major discovery
5 months ago

Physics pioneer, 98, finally honoured 75 years after major discovery

The Independent  

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Google Doodle Today: Celebrating 100th birth anniversary of César Lattes; a Brazilian physicist who discovered pion
5 months, 1 week ago

Google Doodle Today: Celebrating 100th birth anniversary of César Lattes; a Brazilian physicist who discovered pion

Live Mint  

Google Doodle Today: Google Doodle on July 11 is celebrating birthday of Brazilian physicist and teacher César Lattes, who discovered the ‘pion’ or ‘pi meson’. Speaking on César Lattes’ discovery, Google Doodle states, “Happy birthday César Lattes, thank you for paving the way for experimental physics in Latin America and around the world!” The story dates back to when a …

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How was ‘God Particle’ Discovered? Journey of Nobel-prize Winning Physicist Peter Higgs Encapsulated
8 months, 1 week ago

How was ‘God Particle’ Discovered? Journey of Nobel-prize Winning Physicist Peter Higgs Encapsulated

News 18  

The death of Nobel prize-winning British physicist Peter Higgs, who proposed a new particle — ‘Higgs Boson’ – will leave a void in the field of particle physics. The term is often connected to Nobel prize-winning physicist Leon Lederman referring to the Higgs Boson as the “Goddamn Particle” with regards to how difficult it was to detect. In order to …

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Prized Science | The Holy Grail of bacteria study; Unmasking the mysterious dark matter
1 year, 2 months ago

Prized Science | The Holy Grail of bacteria study; Unmasking the mysterious dark matter

Hindustan Times  

The Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prizes for Science and Technology were awarded to 12 researchers in seven disciplines. His theoretical work on subatomic particles called neutrinos, which straddle both the atomic and astrophysical worlds, and the mysterious “dark matter” earned him this year’s Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Physical Sciences, shared with Anindya Das of IISc Bangalore. Being large structures composed …

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Experiment on wobbling subatomic particles points to a possible unknown force
1 year, 4 months ago

Experiment on wobbling subatomic particles points to a possible unknown force

The Hindu  

The peculiar wobble of a subatomic particle called a muon in a U.S. laboratory experiment is making scientists increasingly suspect they are missing something in their understanding of physics - perhaps some unknown particle or force. Researchers on Thursday announced new findings about the muon, a magnetic and negatively charged particle similar to its cousin the electron but 200 times …

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Remembering G. Rajasekaran (1936-2023), physicist and a true scholar
1 year, 6 months ago

Remembering G. Rajasekaran (1936-2023), physicist and a true scholar

The Hindu  

Prof. Guruswamy Rajasekaran, a doyen of particle physicists of India, breathed his last on May 29, 2023. Unified theory Rajaji’s work is broadly in the area of particle and nuclear physics. With the addition of Rajaji, the Department of Theoretical Physics at Madras University, already well established, became one of the best places to do theoretical physics in India. In …

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Eminent physicist G. Rajasekaran passes away
1 year, 6 months ago

Eminent physicist G. Rajasekaran passes away

The Hindu  

G. Rajasekaran, renowned particle physicist and emeritus professor at the Institute of Mathematical Sciences died on Monday at the age of 87. Prof. Rajasekaran joined the University of Madras and later moved to the Institute of Mathematical Sciences in the early 1980s. Prof. Rajasekaran, fondly known as Rajaji to his associates and students, has trained many in the field of …

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A particle accelerator that just turned on could reveal rare forms of matter
2 years ago

A particle accelerator that just turned on could reveal rare forms of matter

Salon  

Just a few hundred feet from where we are sitting is a large metal chamber devoid of air and draped with the wires needed to control the instruments inside. Starting in May 2022, national and international teams of scientists converged at Michigan State University and began running scientific experiments at FRIB with the goal of creating, isolating and studying new …

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SCIENCE NOTEBOOK | Recent study assesses carbon footprint of particle colliders
2 years, 1 month ago

SCIENCE NOTEBOOK | Recent study assesses carbon footprint of particle colliders

The Hindu  

Published : Nov 17, 2022 10:25 IST There are many designs on the table for the next-generation super collider. All of them are billed as “Higgs factories” because, as the particle physicist Caterina Vernieri, one of the members of the international Higgs Study group, wrote: “Clearly, one of the main experimental milestones for the post-LHC landscape is the study of …

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Particle physics pushing cancer treatment boundaries
2 years, 2 months ago

Particle physics pushing cancer treatment boundaries

The Hindu  

Researchers at Europe's science lab CERN, who regularly use particle physics to challenge our understanding of the universe, are also applying their craft to upend the limits to cancer treatment. In one CERN lab, called CLEAR, facility coordinator Roberto Corsini stands next to a large, linear particle accelerator consisting of a 40-metre metal beam with tubes packed in aluminium foil …

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Deciphering quantum secrets leads to a Nobel
2 years, 2 months ago

Deciphering quantum secrets leads to a Nobel

Hindustan Times  

New Delhi: Albert Einstein described the concept as “spooky action at a distance”. It is for their work on quantum entanglement that Alain Aspect, John Clauser and Anton Zeilinger shared the Nobel Prize in Physics announced on Tuesday. The citation acknowledged them “for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science”. The late …

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10 years of Higgs boson | How the particle could unlock new physics beyond the standard model
2 years, 5 months ago

10 years of Higgs boson | How the particle could unlock new physics beyond the standard model

The Hindu  

Ten years ago, scientists announced the discovery of the Higgs boson, which helps explain why elementary particles have mass. In the past decade, measurements of the properties of the Higgs boson have confirmed the predictions of the standard model of particle physics. pic.twitter.com/icxoUGdF29 — CERN June 29, 2022 Physicist Peter Higgs predicted the Higgs boson in a series of papers …

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Is the standard model of particle physics broken?
2 years, 7 months ago

Is the standard model of particle physics broken?

The Independent  

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The standard model of particle physics gets a jolt
2 years, 7 months ago

The standard model of particle physics gets a jolt

The Hindu  

The story so far: On April 7, researchers from Collider Detector at Fermilab Collaboration, in the U.S., announced, through a paper in Science, that they have made a precise measurement of the mass of the so-called W boson. The recent experiment at CDF, which measured the mass of the W boson as 80,433.5 +/- 9.4 Mev/c2, which is approximately 80 …

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Posing a hefty problem for physicists, a fundamental particle weighs in heavier than expected
2 years, 8 months ago

Posing a hefty problem for physicists, a fundamental particle weighs in heavier than expected

Salon  

The model we have for understanding the universe's fundamental particles is a bit like a gearbox: one tiny change to any one single particles' properties throws off the mechanics of the other particles, too. Our understanding of the fundamental particles, something known as the Standard Model of particle physics, is one of the most towering human achievements of the past …

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Understanding the Big Bang: How we’re probing the universe’s origins at Cern
3 years, 6 months ago

Understanding the Big Bang: How we’re probing the universe’s origins at Cern

The Independent  

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Another hint of ‘new physics’, this time from Fermilab
3 years, 8 months ago

Another hint of ‘new physics’, this time from Fermilab

The Hindu  

Fermilab, which houses the American particle accelerator, has released the first results from its ‘muon g-2’ experiment. Magnetic moment The Standard Model of particle physics calculates this correction, called the anomalous magnetic moment, very accurately. The muon g-2 experiment measured the extent of the anomaly and on Wednesday, Fermilab announced that the measured ‘g’ deviated from the amount predicted by …

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‘Tantalizing’ results of two experiments defy physics rulebook
3 years, 8 months ago

‘Tantalizing’ results of two experiments defy physics rulebook

LA Times  

The Muon g-2 ring at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory outside of Chicago. Preliminary results from two experiments suggest something could be wrong with the basic way physicists think the universe works — a prospect that has the field of particle physics both baffled and thrilled. “It’s tantalizing.” The U.S. Energy Department’s Fermilab announced results Wednesday of 8.2 billion races …

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Opinion: It took a sea and land journey to prove to scientists they were wrong about physics
3 years, 8 months ago

Opinion: It took a sea and land journey to prove to scientists they were wrong about physics

CNN  

Editor’s Note: Don Lincoln is a senior scientist at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. This may not sound like much, but this single measurement tells scientists that their theory about what is called the standard model of particle physics is incomplete – and has to be rethought. What the standard model predicts – and what this new measurement assesses – …

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Is the LHC on the brink of discovering new physics?
3 years, 8 months ago

Is the LHC on the brink of discovering new physics?

The Hindu  

Once in a way, the world of physics is in a state of upheaval – experiments are carried out that reveal limitations to older, established theories, and new physics is born. Verge of discovery While the findings were not sufficiently strong to be counted as a discovery, CERN scientists were excited enough to reveal that if the anomaly they had …

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