Particle Physics

Credit: (Image by Brookhaven National Laboratory.) Asymmetry in the proton confounds physicists, but a new discovery may bring back old theories to explain it. Symmetry -- displayed in areas ranging from mathematics and…

A radiotherapy technique which 'paints' tumours by targeting them precisely, and avoiding healthy tissue, has been devised in research led by the University of Strathclyde. Researchers used a magnetic lens to focus a Very High Electron…

From a black hole to the South Pole: Scientists identify first neutrino from a tidal disruption eventCredit: Credit: DESY, Science Communication Lab Tracing back a ghostly particle to a shredded star, scientists have uncovered a…

A POSTECH-KAIST joint research team has successfully developed a technique to reach near-unity efficiency of SHEL by using an artificially-designed metasurface. Professor Junsuk Rho of POSTECH's departments of mechanical engineering and…

Credit: Source: IFJ PAN Cracow, 18 February 2021 Creation of matter in an interaction of two photons belongs to a class of very rare phenomena. From the data of the ATLAS experiment at the LHC, collected with the new AFP…

Credit: POSTECH, WILEY Sample pretreatment processes such as concentration or classification are essential to finding trace substances present in a fluid. In scientific communities recently, prolific research is being conducted on…

Credit: Lancaster University Our understanding of the Universe could be transformed thanks to major UK investment in quantum technologies including £2M for Lancaster University. UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) is supporting two…

Berkeley Lab team models parton showers using a quantum algorithmCredit: ATLAS Collaboration A team of researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) used a quantum computer to successfully simulate an aspect of…

Credit: Photo: Ryan Postel, Fermilab The U.S. Department of Energy has formally approved the start of execution of the High-Luminosity LHC Accelerator Upgrade Project being carried out at eight U.S. institutions. The…

Credit: Steven Burrows For nearly a century, scientists have worked to unravel the mystery of dark matter--an elusive substance that spreads through the universe and likely makes up much of its mass, but has so far proven…

Credit: Photo: STFC Engineers and technicians in the UK have started production of key piece of equipment for a major international science experiment. The UK government has invested $89 million (£65 million) in the international…

More preventive measures, such as shielding underneath tables and improving air conditioner filtration efficiency, could reduce exposure to COVID-19 within air-conditioned restaurantsCredit: Han Liu WASHINGTON, February 9, 2021 --…

Virtual talk will focus on leveraging quantum information to revolutionize computing Northwestern University's Danna Freedman will share novel insights on quantum chemistry's ability to unlock access to molecules and open new fields of…

The synthesized zircon can be used for storage and disposal of radioactive waste; Furthermore, the unusual material, can be used as a reference sample in mineralogical studiesCredit: Ural Federal University The scientific novelty of…

Researchers from the international BASE collaboration at CERN, Switzerland, which is led by the RIKEN Fundamental Symmetries Laboratory, have discovered a new avenue to search for axions--a hypothetical particle that is one of the…

Breaks the limitations of classical mechanics by introducing a quasi-quantum effect; expected to accelerate complex problem-solving in finance, pharmaceuticals and logisticsCredit: Toshiba Corporation TOKYO --Toshiba…

The quality of muon beams can now be assessed thanks to a new technique that has produced the first known images of these high-energy particles.Credit: Seiichi Yamamoto A new technique has taken the first images of muon particle…

Weather parameters, typically excluded from pandemic modeling, improve prediction capabilitiesCredit: Talib Dbouk and Dimitris Drikakis, University of Nicosia WASHINGTON, February 2, 2021 -- The "second wave" of the coronavirus…

New study found that electrons can reach ultra-relativistic energies for very special conditions in the magnetosphere when space is devoid of plasma.Credit: Ingo Michaelis and Yuri Shprits, GFZ New study found that electrons can…

American Resources Corp. acquires environmentally safer method developed at Purdue to advance clean energy technologies that require rare-earth elements, a market estimated at about $4 billion annually.Credit: Illustration provided by Linda…