Particle Physics

Professors from the Department of Physics and Astronomy have created a serpentine path for electronsCredit: Jeremy Levy PITTSBURGH--A research team led by professors from the Department of Physics and Astronomy have created a…

Ten graduate students have been awarded fellowships to conduct research at Jefferson Lab by Jefferson Sciences Associates Jefferson Science Associates (JSA) has announced the award of ten graduate fellowships to doctoral students for the…

BEER-SHEVA, Israel, November 24, 2020 - Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) theoretical physicist Prof. Yigal Meir and colleagues worldwide have been awarded a prestigious $16 million grant to study quantum electronic devices. The…

Researchers used a scanning tunneling microscope to visualize quantum dots in bilayer graphene, an important step toward quantum information technologiesCredit: Zhehao Ge, Frederic Joucken, and Jairo Velasco Jr. Trapping and…

Researchers have developed a new theory for observing a quantum vacuum that could lead to new insights into the behaviour of black holes. The Unruh effect combines quantum physics and the theory of relativity. So far it has not been…

Scientists at the University of Birmingham have developed a new sensor to measure weak magnetic signals in the brain Scientists at the University of Birmingham have developed a new sensor to measure weak magnetic signals in the brain,…

Jefferson Lab ships its final accelerator section for a project to upgrade the world's brightest X-ray laserCredit: DOE's Jefferson Lab Today, the U.S. Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility has…

Professor Eugenio Schuster leads new project at the National Spherical Torus Experiment Upgrade (NSTX-U) that will contribute to the eventual design of energy-producing tokamak reactorsCredit: Lehigh University How will the future…

Using x-ray lasers, researchers at Stockholm University have been able to follow the transformation between two distinct different liquid states of water, both being made of H2O molecules. At around -63 Centigrade the two liquids exist at…

Researchers have succeeded in directly observing the formation and interaction of highly ionized krypton plasmaCredit: Image: Jens Meyer/University of Jena The last decade has been marked by a series of remarkable discoveries…

Modifications to existing theories have enabled researchers to better understand and model the dynamics of systems which don't obey conventional laws of diffusion In normal circumstances, particles will follow well-established random…

Credit: Daria Sokol/MIPT Press Office Researchers from MIPT and the RAS Institute of Problems of Chemical Physics have proposed a simple and convenient way to obtain arbitrarily sized quantum dots required for physical experiments via…

Credit: Josée Lecompte Montréal and Québec City, November 19, 2020 - Using the Advanced Laser Light Source (ALLS) facility, the research team of Professor François Légaré of the Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS)…

Credit: Sergey Gnuskov/NUST MISIS Scientists from NUST MISIS National Technological Initiative Center "Quantum Communications" are developing the world's first prototype of an infrared photon video detector. This will be a camera so…

Dotty graphene and doping: Whatever it takes for Russia's record plasmonics to shineCredit: Daria Sokol/MIPT Press Office Physicists from MIPT and Vladimir State University, Russia, have achieved a nearly 90% efficiency converting…

Credit: Tachikawa Takashi Hybrid organic-inorganic perovskites (*1) have received much attention as potential next generation solar cells and as materials for light-emitting devices. Kobe University's Associate Professor TACHIKAWA…

Findings to help achieve Holy Grail of 2D materials - superfast electronic devices A group of researchers led by Sir Andre Geim and Dr Alexey Berdyugin at The University of Manchester have discovered and characterised a new family of…

Potential applications of research conducted at the University of São Paulo include high-precision metrology and information encoding.Credit: Marcelo Martinelli / IF-USP The properties of quantum states of light are already leveraged…

Credit: Collage by Elle Starkman/PPPL Office of Communications. Unlocking the zig-zagging dance of hot, charged plasma particles that fuel fusion reactions can help to harness on Earth the fusion energy that powers the sun and…

Communication No 050/2020 from the BfR of Nov. 6, 2020 To close the substantial gaps in our knowledge, scientists at the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) are investigating which particles are released into the environment…