HL-LHC Accelerator Upgrade Project receives approval to move full-speed-ahead from Department of Energy
…crucial components. The new instruments will enable a giant leap in the number of particle collisions at the future HL-LHC, a 10-fold increase compared to the current LHC. The high-luminosity…
Lead lab selected for next-generation cosmic microwave background experiment
…itself – the detector technology has already been proven in earlier experiments, for example – but the scale at which the technology will be deployed, including the sheer number of…
Experiment uses quantum techniques to stimulate photons, enhancing search for dark matter
…used a qubit to do both, preparing a quantum state of light that stimulates the creation of photons, and then using the qubit to probe the exact number of photons…
TOTEM and DΓ collaborations announce odderon discovery
…“This result probes the deepest features of the theory of quantum chromodynamics, notably that gluons interact between themselves and that an odd number of gluons are able to be “colourless”,…
MICE experiment demonstrates key technique for future muon colliders
…energy for the creation of new particles. One measure of the discovery potential of an accelerator is luminosity, which quantifies how many collisions happen per second. For a given number…
Safety in robots: Mu2eβs automated handler
…direct conversion into an electron, and for this it needs to make a lot of muons. In fact, the number of muons researchers need to see (nearly 1 billion billion,…
NOvA turns its eyes to the skies
…The number of muons is affected by atmospheric conditions, and the total number of muons reaching underground detectors is higher in the summer. Summer’s less dense atmosphere favors the production…
More than 3,000 neutrino scientists gather online for Neutrino 2020
…and covering all seven continents tuned in to the 79 talks – more than four times the typical number of attendees. (Almost half of attendees were early in their career,…
Searching for supernova neutrinos with DUNE
…supernova flux – the number of neutrinos leaving the supernova per second – and the explosion mechanism. Different supernova flux models will produce different numbers of neutrino interactions and signals…
SLACβs superconducting X-ray laser reaches operating temperature colder than outer space
…However, since LCLS-II uses superconducting cavities instead of warm copper cavities based on 60-year-old technology, it can can deliver up to a million pulses per second, 10,000 times the number…