All Articles Tagged As: particle accelerator

Physicists' analysis leads to discovery of new particle (9/12/2008)

Omega b baryon was detected for the first time in a particle accelerator at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory ...> Full Article

First Beam for Large Hadron Collider, World's Mightiest Particle Accelerator (9/11/2008)

physicists are involved in the accelerator's Compact Muon Solenoid experiment ...> Full Article

Scientists observe first particles in the Large Hadron Collider (8/29/2008)

The LHCb VELO has recorded the first hits from tracks of particles injected into the new 27km Large Hadron Collider ...> Full Article

Large Hadron Collider set to unveil a new world of particle physics (8/20/2008)

The field of particle physics is poised to enter unknown territory with the startup of a massive new accelerator--the Large Hadron Collider ...> Full Article

Research division hosts talk on ERL (8/11/2008)

The particle accelerator known as the Energy Recovery Linac (ERL) - now in planning stages - would open doors to new research in fields from materials science to biochemistry ...> Full Article

CERN announces start-up date for LHC (8/8/2008)

First attempt to circulate a beam in the Large Hadron Collider will be made on 10 September ...> Full Article

A front-row seat at this summer's physics extravaganza (7/9/2008)

Team taking part in quest to find elusive Higgs boson ...> Full Article

UK computing Grid warming up for world's largest experiment (4/26/2008)

UK scientists building a computing Grid for particle physics have launched the next phase of their project, in advance of the start of the world's largest experiment ...> Full Article

2,500 researchers, 1 supermachine, 1 new snapshot of the universe (4/5/2008)

physicist a key figure among international team that designed world's biggest particle physics detector ...> Full Article

Why matter matters in the universe (3/30/2008)

A new physics discovery explores why there is more matter than antimatter in the universe ...> Full Article

After 30 years of study, rare particle confirms prediction (3/12/2008)

High-energy physicists devoted to recreating the conditions at the beginning of the universe have for the first time observed a new way to produce those basic particles of atoms, protons and neutrons. ...> Full Article

Physicists and engineers search for new dimension (3/11/2008)

The universe as we currently know it is made up of three dimensions of space and one of time, but researchers are exploring the possibility of an extra dimension. ...> Full Article

Latest Supercomputer Calculations Support the Six-Quark Theory (3/5/2008)

A new calculation, reported in the January 25, 2008 issue of Physical Review Letters, confirms the six-quark theory of particle-anti-particle asymmetry. This is the first complete calculation of this phenomenon to employ a highly accurate description of the quarks that adds a fifth dimension beyond those of space and time. ...> Full Article

Last large piece of ATLAS detector lowered underground (3/3/2008)

Today, researchers in the U.S. ATLAS collaboration joined colleagues around the world to celebrate a pivotal landmark in the construction of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) - the lowering of the final piece of the ATLAS particle detector into the underground collision hall at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. Experiments conducted at this revolutionary LHC facility, poised to become the world's most powerful particle accelerator, may help scientists unravel some of the deepest mysteries in particle physics. The U.S. branch of the collaboration (U.S. ATLAS), which is based at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory and includes scientists and technicians from Argonne National Laboratory, built and delivered several key elements of the ATLAS detector. ...> Full Article

Experiment Tightens Limits On Dark Matter: Physicists Revive Bubble Chamber Technology To Search For WIMPs (2/21/2008)

Scientists working on the COUPP experiment at the Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory have announced a new development in the quest to observe dark matter. The Chicagoland Observatory for Underground Particle Physics experiment tightened constraints on the "spin-dependent" properties of WIMPS, weakly interacting massive particles that are candidates for dark matter. Their results, combined with the findings of other dark matter searches, contradict the claims for the observation of such particles by the Dark Matter experiment (DAMA) in Italy and further restrict the hunting ground for physicists to track their dark matter quarry. ...> Full Article

Scientists help create a key piece of one of the world's most powerful cameras (2/17/2008)

A team of Purdue University researchers and students built a piece of one of the world's most powerful cameras that will provide information about the universe and physical laws that govern existence. ...> Full Article

Particle Accelerator: Signals Sent Racing Ahead At Light Speed To Keep Particles Colliding (2/7/2008)

Imagine trying to catch up to something moving close to the speed of light - the fastest anything can move - and sending ahead information in time to make mid-path flight corrections. Impossible? Not quite. Physicists at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), a particle accelerator at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory, have achieved this tricky task - and the results may save the Lab money and time in their quest to understand the inner workings of the early universe. ...> Full Article

Particle accelerator may reveal shape of alternate dimensions (1/31/2008)

When the world's most powerful particle accelerator starts up later this year, exotic new particles may offer a glimpse of the existence and shapes of extra dimensions. ...> Full Article

ISIS Second Target station - protons on target! (12/21/2007)

The ISIS Second Target Station Project at the STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordshire achieved a major milestone on Friday 14 December, at the first attempt and two days ahead of schedule. Protons were successfully extracted into the new proton transfer beamline from the existing ISIS accelerator and delivered to the new target station. ...> Full Article

Physicist shining a light on mysterious 'dark matter' (10/4/2007)

We've all been taught that our bodies, the Earth, and in fact all matter in the universe is composed of tiny building blocks called atoms. Now imagine if this weren't the case. This mind-bending concept is at the core of the scientific research that researchers all over the world—are pursuing. ...> Full Article

Physicists achieve landmark accelerator gradient (9/14/2007)

Scientists work on particle accelerators in much the same way that horsepower junkies work on muscle cars. Although their research doesn't involve turbochargers, stall torque converters or cat back exhaust systems, they obsesses over the power of their machine. ...> Full Article