Solving the mystery of one, then two, dead magnets at Fermilab
The Magnet Detectives investigates the story of the assembly of the US-built magnets for the high-luminosity upgrade to the Large Hadron Collider. By doubling the number of protons inside the…
A team of international physicists join forces in hunt for sterile neutrinos
…particles to date. “The two experiments use multiple detectors with well-understood uncertainties and have collected an unprecedentedly large number of events. Requiring consistency between the data sets of the two…
LHC scientists detect most favored Higgs decay
…physicist at DOE’s Brookhaven National Laboratory who works on the ATLAS experiment, finding the Higgs boson decaying into bottom quarks has been priority number one for the last several years…
Hundreds of hadrons
Hadrons count among their number the familiar protons and neutrons that make up our atoms, but they are much more than that….
Ultrapure copper for an ultrasensitive dark matter detector
…that it is unstable and spontaneously decays into other particles. The minuscule number of copper atoms converted into cobalt has no impact on everyday uses for copper. But Bauer and…
A joint statement from the the United States and India
…create the most intense high-energy neutrino beams which would help unravel understanding of the evolution of the universe. This contribution is described in number 10 of the White House statement….
Daniel Bowring receives $2.5 million from DOE to search for axions with quantum sensors
…qubits, to pluck the solo photon signal from the noise and thus accurately count the number of detected photons. Bowring’s experiment will be an opportunity to bridge the gap between…
Sensitive qubit-based technique to accelerate search for dark matter
…the qubit used to measure the state of the cavity, either or 1. The value refers to the number of photons counted. If the dark matter has successfully deposited a…
SLAC fires up the worldβs most powerful X-ray laser: LCLS-II ushers in a new era of science
…range, capture detailed snapshots of rapid processes, probe delicate samples that are beyond the reach of other light sources and gather more data in less time, greatly increasing the number…
Scientists move a step closer to understanding the βcold spotβ in the cosmic microwave background
…quarter of the Southern Hemisphere.” Scientists previously counted the number of galaxies visible in the location of the CMB Cold Spot and found an underdensity of galaxies in that region….