• Groove to the physics mix tape

    Updated: 2009-08-21 18:47:12
    Are science references on the rise in popular music? There are certainly enough science-inspired songs to fill out a double-album playlist, with disc one all about astrophysics and disc two dedicated to physics in general.

  • Newswire: KEK - Belle Finds a Hint of New Physics in Extremely Rare B Decays

    Updated: 2009-08-21 05:00:00
    : Home News Image Bank About Interactions.org Image Bank Video Channel Blog Watch Resources Policy and Funding Physics and Society Education Universities Institutes Future Contact Us Workspaces Sign up for our newswire and receive the latest press releases from particle physics labs around the . world RSS News Feed Share this : page Email this page Blink Del.icio.us Digg Furl Google reddit Simpy Spurl StumbleUpon Y MyWeb Interactions News Wire 45-09 21 August 2009 http : www.interactions.org Source : KEK Content : Press Release Date Issued : 22 August 2009 Belle Finds a Hint of New Physics in Extremely Rare B Decays Quarks , the most fundamental constituents of matters , are classified into six species grouped into three generations as predicted by Professors Kobayashi and Maskawa . The purpose of the B factory experiment is to elucidate the fundamental laws of elementary particles by producing B mesons that contain the second heaviest quark bottom An international team of researchers at the High Energy Accelerator Research organization KEK in Tsukuba , Japan , the Belle collaboration 1 has achieved many successes , including the discovery of CP violation in B meson decays and

  • Sen. Al Franken goes deep to learn about particle physics

    Updated: 2009-08-20 23:24:06
    Sen. Al Franken showed a serious interest in particle physics when he toured the Soudan Mine 2500-feet underground in Minnesota last week. The former comedy writer and talk show host was full of earnest questions about the physics behind the mine's current operating experiments: a dark matter detector called the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search, or CDMS II; and a high-energy neutrino detector called the Main Injector Neutrino Oscillation Search, or MINOS.

  • August 2009 issue of symmetry now online

    Updated: 2009-08-19 19:36:51
    We've been calling this our Manga issue because it highlights the work of Takuya Uruno, who created a physics Manga series for kids for the Japanese laboratory KEK and also drew us a gorgeous cover.

  • Physicists play high-energy game of catch

    Updated: 2009-08-17 16:02:40
    The Washington Post today explains the cross-state particle physics experiment NOvA, which has been kicked into high-gear this summer with the help of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funding.

  • The Proton Spin Puzzle

    Updated: 2009-08-17 14:32:23
    For 20 years QCD has been unable to guess the structure of the most common stable hadron, the proton. This is exemplified in the “Proton Spin Puzzle.” A recent review article: The proton spin puzzle: where are we today? Steven D. Bass Invited Brief Review for Modern Physics Letters A, 17 pages The proton spin puzzle has challenged [...]

  • Fermilab in the house: the Original Gangsta atom smasher gets its own rap

    Updated: 2009-08-12 15:05:42
    Check it: sick rhymes and sweet beats meet hardcore science. Physics rap is in the house. Before you say, "I've heard that before," listen up--this isn't the Large Hadron Rap, the surprise sensation that's logged more than 5 million views on YouTube. There's a brand-new riff on particle physics, created by rapper and science enthusiast Funky49, a.k.a. Steven Rush. It's called the Fermilab Rap, or "Particle Business," and it's a tad slicker and a touch edgier than any physics rap you've heard before.

  • Starving baby black holes?

    Updated: 2009-08-10 17:52:26
    The first black holes in the universe had dramatic effects on their surroundings despite the fact that they were small and grew very slowly.

  • Newswire: Fermilab to Receive Additional $60.2 Million in Recovery Act Funding for High Energy Physics

    Updated: 2009-08-05 05:00:00
    Funds are part of more than $327 million in new Recovery Act funding to be disbursed by Department of Energy's Office of Science Batavia, Ill. - In the latest installment of funding from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, DOE's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory will receive an additional $60.2 million to support research toward next generation particle accelerators and preliminary design for a future neutrino experiment.

  • Newswire: INFN - The discovery of sharp resonance states in exotic, proton emitting, nuclei

    Updated: 2009-07-17 15:00:00
    Little is known about the structure of unstable, proton emitting, nuclei. These nuclei can be produced during stellar explosions in the cosmos, and live only for a very small fraction of second before they disintegrate into more stable products. Nowadays, they are also produced and detected in experiments made in large modern nuclear physics laboratories that are equipped with radioactive ion beams. Such elusive nuclei rapidly decay by emitting one (and sometimes two) protons, and for this reason are indicated as nuclei that lie outside of the so-called proton drip line.

  • Newswire: CERN and EU Commission agree on closer scientific partnership

    Updated: 2009-07-17 13:30:00
    Geneva, 17 July 2009. Today in Brussels, CERN and the European Commission are to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), which aims to enhance the long-standing partnership between the two organizations. The MoU will provide a structured framework for cooperation across a broad range of issues of common interest, with emphasis on consolidating and further developing the European Research Area and facilitating the implementation of the European Strategy for Particle Physics, as defined by the CERN Council.

  • Newswire: Fermilab's CDF observes Omega-sub-b baryon

    Updated: 2009-06-29 05:00:00
    At a recent physics seminar at the Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Fermilab physicist Pat Lukens of the CDF experiment announced the observation of a new particle, the Omega-sub-b (Ωb). The particle contains three quarks, two strange quarks and a bottom quark (s-s-b). It is an exotic relative of the much more common proton and has about six times the proton’s mass.

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