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A space mission managed by the European Space Agency (ESA) was recently able to shed more light on a complex physical phenomenon, which involves the acceleration of particles in deep-space as if inside a man-made particle accelerators. The initial stages of the process are now understood.
The ESA Cluster mission man... |
17 November 2011
03:09 GMT |
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Physicists with the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) say that they are currently working on validating laser plasma accelerator technologies. If successful, their efforts could lead to the establishment of a new class of scientific devices, which could replace ... |
23 August 2011
03:33 GMT |
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Our understanding of how black holes work from a physics perspective holds that these objects should be capable of accelerating particles at much higher energies than equipment built here on Earth ever could. Now, investigators are looking into methods of making this a reality. The international collaboration of rese... |
14 July 2011
05:10 GMT |
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Physicists have recently taken a great deal of interest in tiny-mass black holes, constructs that are many orders of magnitude smaller than their supermassive counterparts inhabiting the cores of large galaxies.
Studies focused on microscopic black holes hope to tease out more data about how the structures form a... |
9 July 2011
05:24 GMT |
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Scientists working at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), underneath Geneva, say that the machine may be used for shedding more light on the origins of life. This conclusion was drawn after a group of elite experts discussed the idea in a workshop. The purpose of the meeting was to determine whether the massive scientif... |
14 June 2011
05:28 GMT |
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Experts at the American space agency have just produced the most detailed account of how short gamma-ray bursts (GRB) are formed from the collision of two neutron stars. The work will certainly become a reference point in this field, which deals with explaining the most energetic events in the Universe. The origins o... |
8 April 2011
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Last June, the Hayabusa sample-return mission finally made its way back to Earth, after years of wandering damaged through space. The fine dust grains recovered from its sample container cannot be processed and analyzed however, due to the damage caused in the necessary installations by a tremor.On March 11, 2011, a ... |
23 March 2011
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Over the past 20 years or so, a multitude of massive particle accelerators have been built, culminating with the Large Hadron Collider's 27-kilometer-long tunnels. But the future of particle physics is on the tabletop, not deep underground, say researchers in the United States. Machines like the LHC are becoming... |
18 March 2011
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The conclusions of a new scientific survey call into question a long-standing theory that explains how cosmic rays are formed. The leading explanation for this might need some serious updating, or even replacing, investigators in charge of the study say.
Cosmic rays are highly energetic particle streams that cont... |
4 March 2011
02:53 GMT |
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In a new scientific study, experts propose that we attempt to use neutrinos in our quests to establish contact with potential extraterrestrial civilizations that may exist elsewhere in the Universe. Until now, all messages that we sent into space were delivered via radio waves. We were accustomed to using this type o... |
11 January 2011
09:24 GMT |
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Even if the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has barely began functioning properly for a couple of years, particle physicists are already thinking about the next generation of elementary particle splitters, and one particular concept appears to have captured their imagination – muon colliders. A muon is an elementar... |
4 January 2011
09:26 GMT |
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The ALICE detector on the Large Hadron Collider is helping theoretical physicists understand the world of elementary particles better than ever before. The first discoveries made by the detector have been published already, less than a month after the LHC changed the material it was working with. When the largest par... |
9 December 2010
08:52 GMT |
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American researchers at the University of Michigan announce that it is possible to create something out of nothing when the right conditions are met. In this case, what is needed is an ultra-high-intensity laser beam and a particle accelerator at least two miles in length.What the team argues is that setting in motio... |
9 December 2010
08:35 GMT |
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The Large Hadron Collider switched from using protons for its collisions to heavier lead ions recently, so that the events would produce more data than ever before. Some three weeks into the studies, this has already resulted in new insights of how the Universe looked like at the Big Bang.The goal of the LHC is to de... |
26 November 2010
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In a research paper appearing in the journal arXiv, a team of physicists details how mass can be created inside the two-dimensional carbon compound known as graphene. This material has a peculiar range of chemical and physical properties, which make it the next big thing in the electronics industry. The range of pote... |
21 October 2010
11:01 GMT |
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Officials at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) say that the largest particle accelerator in the world is currently smashing together unprecedented numbers of atoms. The state-of-the-art facility features the most powerful machine of this sort ever constructed, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), whic... |
21 October 2010
03:58 GMT |
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While most of the scientists working at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) expected to further the boundaries of physics as they did so, very few expected this to happen this fast. It would appear that a never-before-seen phenomenon has been observed at the accelerator. According to reports, it would seem that operators... |
22 September 2010
10:46 GMT |
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Experts at Berkeley Lab recently took a hard look at how future particle accelerators will be powered, and naturally arrived at the conclusion that superconductor technologies need improvement.Superconductors and superconducting magnets have been around for some time, and they promise to underlie a new range of extre... |
11 September 2010
03:47 GMT |
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A Court in Hawaii has just rejected a new lawsuit brought against the Large Hadron Collider. The plaintiffs failed to produce any evidence that the machine is dangerous, the ruling says. The decision was passed down on August 24, by a Hawaiian appeals court. The judges said that the US Department of Energy (DOE) and ... |
28 August 2010
03:42 GMT |
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Experts have finally been able to confirm the existence of cosmic particle accelerators in our galaxy, the Milky Way, after years of studies. Astrophysicists have known for a long time that some galaxies have portions that are capable of acting like giant particle accelerators, forcing various particles to move at ne... |
18 August 2010
04:39 GMT |
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More than three decades ago, experts showed in a series of calculations that it's theoretically possible for particle accelerators to produce a lot more energy from their experiments than they consume running them. The idea was again brought to life recently, as experts investigated an old idea. The concept prop... |
9 August 2010
06:33 GMT |
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In a new series of physics experiments set-up in particle accelerators, researchers were able to account for why we, and indeed the Universe, exists. As any physics expert will tell, we theoretically shouldn't be here. Neither should galaxies, stars, black holes, cosmic gas, and everything in between. Since matt... |
19 May 2010
01:39 GMT |
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By the end of this summer, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the most advanced and massive particle accelerator in the world, could become able to search for new elementary particles. The search will take place in an energy domain range that has never been explored before. The LHC is the holder of the world's rec... |
18 May 2010
09:46 GMT |
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According to a new scientific investigation, it may be that our planet's atmosphere is capable of forming massive energy fields high above Earth's surface that act just like particle accelerators. The conclusions were presented today, April 14, at the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) National Astronomy Meet... |
14 April 2010
11:05 GMT |
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A group of experts from the Southern Methodist University (SMU), in Dallas, announces the development of a new, super-fast circuit designed specifically to augment the capabilities of one of the main particle detectors of the Large Hadron Collider. The LHC is the largest physics experiment ever designed, and its goal... |
9 April 2010
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Physicists at the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), working together with Russian colleagues from the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) in Dubna, were able until now to discover five of the heaviest chemicals known to man, elements 113, 114, 115, 116 and 118... |
7 April 2010
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Physicists operating the largest particle accelerator in the world, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), are very hopeful that their collisions of proton beams will result in many wonderful discoveries. In addition to gaining more insight into the Big Bang, the moment when the Universe exploded into beings, and more know... |
1 April 2010
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Yesterday morning, a new phase in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) science program began. For the first time ever, streams of protons have been collided head-on against each other at an energy level no lower than 7 teraelectronvolts (TeV), about three times higher than previously-attained energies. This is basically t... |
31 March 2010
08:34 GMT |
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Officials at CERN, the organization in charge of operating the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), announced recently that they had decided on a new start date for science programs at the world's largest and most powerful particle accelerator. The new date was set for Tuesday, March 30. At that time, officials say that... |
23 March 2010
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Yesterday, the largest particle accelerator in the world managed to break the world record for producing the most energetic collisions ever achieved in such a machine. Granted, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) broke its own record that it set in December, and analysts say that it will continue to set the bar higher an... |
20 March 2010
06:11 GMT |
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After they began operating the world's largest particle accelerator, or possibly even before, engineers started noticing a number of design flaws at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the largest scientific experiment in the world. They have therefore decided to halt work at the machine throughout 2012, and to res... |
10 March 2010
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Officials at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) announce that the most powerful particle accelerator in the world, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), will be brought back online next week. The largest physics experiment in the world was shut down for a few weeks during the holidays, and it is now abl... |
19 February 2010
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Cosmic rays are streams of protons that occasionally slam into the planet's atmosphere at speeds close to that of light. While their effects have been identified and studied extensively, astrophysicists have had a hard time figuring out where they originate. A leading explanation is that supernovae somehow produ... |
16 February 2010
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Researchers in Germany were recently able to use a special trap so as to collect direct measurements on the weight of no less than three isotopes of the super-heavy chemical element nobelium. While the heaviest stable element to appear in nature is uranium, science was able to synthesize as many as 25 additional chem... |
11 February 2010
04:48 GMT |
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Physicists in Japan have recently discovered an exotic form of carbon, one that features an extra-large halo nucleus. The central region of this atom is so large, that it even puts to shame the nuclei of heavier chemical elements such as copper and zinc. However, the new material does not exist in nature, as it was p... |
10 February 2010
15:21 GMT |
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Engineers operating the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the largest particle accelerator in the world, have recently decided on the schedule they will follow for the upcoming years. They say that they will continue to run the massive scientific experiment at a low power level through 2011, after which time they will shu... |
3 February 2010
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Over the last few years, numerous controversies have sprung up around massive particle accelerators such as the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Most often, critics fear that these giant machines will produce particle collisions that are so energetic that they could give birth to very small black holes. Physicists say th... |
23 January 2010
06:07 GMT |
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According to representatives at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has officially become the most powerful particle accelerator in the world. The gigantic machine, which is arguably the largest and most complicated physics project ever undertaken, has exceeded the p... |
30 November 2009
04:37 GMT |
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Scientists in the Asian nation are excited about the fire-up of their latest synchotron, a particle accelerator featuring a 30-GeV Main Ring. The J-PARC (Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex) is managed by a multi-national T2K neutrino collaboration, and has over the weekend made its first neutrino observations.... |
28 November 2009
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Scientists at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), the group that manages the Large Hadron Collider, announced that the first proton beams had already been injected in the massive particle accelerator, and that they had completed thousands of spins in its tunnels. The 27-kilometer-long facility saw ... |
21 November 2009
02:47 GMT |
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Scientists working with the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) are undoubtedly among some of the luckiest investigators on the planet, having been given the chance to contribute to the most advanced research experiments in the history of humankind. But, even though the particle accelerator has yet to produce concrete result... |
20 November 2009
10:00 GMT |
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According to CERN, the operator of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), engineers have recently been able to successfully inject particle beams inside sections of the amazingly large particle accelerator. The world's largest physics experiment was shut down in September 2008, after a leak compromised a section of th... |
27 October 2009
04:56 GMT |
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While a temperature of about 35,000 degrees Fahrenheit may seem a bit hot to most of us, physicists would consider it just warm. Within it, they say, resides warm dense matter, a type of matter that has been brought up to a high temperature, but not high enough to start undergoing nuclear fusion. One place where this... |
16 October 2009
05:11 GMT |
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In spite of the fact that the 27-kilometer-long Large Hadron Collider (LHC) was built in order to further our understanding of particle physics, and also to discover the elusive Higgs boson, engineers and physicists are also planning other uses for it. In the near future, one such purpose may be to test the validity ... |
8 October 2009
02:50 GMT |
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Uranium is the heaviest chemical element that can be found in nature. Over the years, scientists have been trying to discover other, heavier chemicals, and their efforts yielded plutonium in the 1940s, which went on to be used for weapons of mass destruction. Others have been discovered since, but our ability to synt... |
30 September 2009
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According to initial plans, the Large Hadron Collider should have already produced its first scientific results by now. But, as it stands, malfunctions have delayed its operation considerably, and now experts are working around the clock on bringing the largest particle accelerator in the world back online. As repair... |
28 September 2009
06:32 GMT |
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Scientists at the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility have recently taken a huge step forward in advancing particle-accelerator technology when they have created the first US-built superconducting radiofrequency (SRF) niobium cavity. The new instrument was designed spec... |
18 September 2009
03:27 GMT |
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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
06:37 GMT |
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Shortly after managing to fix the helium leaks that forced engineers to shut down the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) last September, project managers discovered another fluke. This time, they identified two areas of vacuum leak, in regions of the particle accelerator that needed to be cooled near absolute zero. The new ... |
21 July 2009
02:24 GMT |
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Astronomers have finally discovered proof that confirms a long-held belief, namely that the shock waves generated by supernova explosions act like giant and extremely powerful particle accelerators. They came to this conclusion when they recently discovered that cosmic-ray particles, generated only when a massive sta... |
26 June 2009
02:44 GMT |
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