Posts Tagged ‘high-energy particle physics’
What matters in universe’s asymmetry
SYRACUSE U. (US) — A study of the decay of a rare particle present right after the Big Bang could help solve the mystery of why the universe evolved to have more matter than antimatter. Continue…
Tuesday, March 29, 2011 10:17 - 1 Comment
Science & Technology - Apr 29, 2010 0:49 - 0 Comments
Building a better cosmic ‘mousetrap’
MICHIGAN STATE (US)—Capturing fleeting bits of matter to reveal the nature of the universe is a little like trying to trap incredibly tiny, impossibly speedy mice. (more…)
Science & Technology - Mar 31, 2010 11:06 - 1 Comment
Smashing success for Big Bang experiment
U. COLORADO (US)—Scientists crashed proton beams together at three and one-half times the highest energy levels ever recorded on March 30 in a quest to discover the physical conditions immediately following the Big Bang. (more…)
Science & Technology - Jan 7, 2010 13:28 - 4 Comments
Physicists pore over ‘beautiful’ collider data
IOWA STATE—Scientists are starting to analyze real data from the planet’s biggest science experiment—finally. (more…)
Society & Culture - Oct 30, 2009 5:47 - 2 Comments
Race ends in dead heat; Einstein wins
STANFORD (US)—Racing across the universe for the last 7.3 billion years, two gamma-ray photons arrived at NASA’s orbiting Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope within nine-tenths of a second of one another. The dead-heat finish may stoke the fires of debate among physicists over Einstein’s special theory of relativity because one of the photons possessed a million times more energy than the other. (more…)
