Whilst conducting a new series of experiments involving the analysis of protons, scientists at the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (Jefferson Lab) discovered that the companions protons had inside the atomic nuclei changed the positive particles' internal stru... |
19 November 2009
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The NASA MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry and Ranging (MESSENGER) probe has just recently performed its third flyby of Mercury, and it is currently heading on a course that will allow it to be captured in the planet's orbit in early 2011. As it passed close to the planet after one of its third ap... |
27 October 2009
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The US Department of Energy's (DOE) Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) has been the world's most powerful pulsed neutron-scattering science facility for a long time. Now, its role has been even further consolidated, when it has become the first such research institute to reach and exceed the one-megawatt mark.... |
1 October 2009
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The US Department of Energy (DOE)-operated Oak Ridge National Laboratory, in Tennesse, is the proud owner of the world's largest accelerator-based neutron source, the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS). Built and funded by an unprecedented cooperative effort from six DOE laboratories (Argonne, Lawrence Berkeley, Br... |
28 July 2009
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After a very long battle with other candidates, Sweden has finally won the honor of hosting Europe's next neutron-science facility, the European Spallation Source. The science complex will be built around a linear particle accelerator, which will accelerate protons to high speeds, and then have them collide into... |
30 May 2009
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The Geiger-Muller counter is a particle detector designed to detect ionizing radiation, such as alpha and beta as well as gamma radiation (although with significantly lower sensitivity than other types of detectors). It was invented by the German physicist Hans Geiger (co-discoverer of the atom nucleus) and later imp... |
2 July 2008
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Protons and neutrons are the basic constituents of the atomic nucleus. Understanding the interactions between the nucleons may provide some insight towards understanding the structure of the nucleus in light nuclei and neutron stars alike. An experiment carried out at the US Department of Energy's Thomas Jeffers... |
30 May 2008
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Magnetic fields are routinely used in medical and scientific investigations to make observations of internal structures. For the first time researchers were able to create a three-dimensional of a magnetic field inside a solid, non-transparent structure through a technique using neutron polarization. The study was co... |
31 March 2008
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The newly discovered particle is part of the meson class of particles, has a non-zero electric charge, and is composed of four quarks. The announcement of the discovery of the new particle was made by researchers at the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK) in Tsukuba, Japan, and named the exotic partic... |
16 November 2007
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A team of scientists working at an experiment called "Dzero" at the Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory announced the discovery of a new heavy particle, called "zigh sub b" baryon, Îb.This new particle, also known as "cascade b," has a mass six times greater than that of a proton, is el... |
14 June 2007
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