• Particle physics experiment construction a boon for Minnesota neighbors

    Updated: 2009-12-22 00:01:40
    This video first appeared in Fermilab Today November 6. In this video, residents of northern Minnesota and the construction workers building the NOvA neutrino detector facility discuss the benefits project construction has brought their communities. The facility will house a multi-ton particle detector that will investigate the role of subatomic particles called neutrinos in the origin of [...]

  • December 2009 issue of symmetry now online

    Updated: 2009-12-18 23:46:12
    From data preservation to recycling old physics machines, the adventures of a breakthrough space telescope, Nerdcore rap, physics opera, astronomical toilet paper, and more.

  • Is that a snowflake or a particle track?

    Updated: 2009-12-18 19:15:45
    Fermilab created a season's greetings card using particle physics flair and a US milestone. Send the card to your fellow fans of physics.

  • Newswire: CERN - LHC ends 2009 run on a high note

    Updated: 2009-12-18 06:00:00
    Geneva, 18 December 2009. At its 153rd session today, the CERN[1] Council heard that the Large Hadron Collider ended its first full period of operation in style on Wednesday 16 December. Collisions at 2.36TeV recorded since last weekend have set a new world record and brought to a close a successful first run for the world's most powerful particle accelerator. The LHC has now been put into standby mode, and will restart in February 2010 following a short technical stop to prepare for higher energy collisions and the start of the main research programme.

  • Newswire: KEK - KEKB/Belle integrated luminosity reached 1000 fb-1

    Updated: 2009-12-18 06:00:00
    At the KEKB B-Factory, the total integrated luminosity accumulated by the Belle detector reached 1000 fb-1 on November 29th 2009, which was one of the initial goals of the KEKB project.

  • Newswire: DESY - DESY turns 50!

    Updated: 2009-12-18 06:00:00
    Germany's largest accelerator centre celebrates its anniversary today Germany's largest accelerator centre celebrates its birthday on 18 December: the research centre Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY turns 50. Since its foundation in 1959, DESY has developed into an internationally renowned centre for fundamental research. "DESY stands for top-level research in the development of particle accelerators and in the utilisation of these facilities to study the structure and function of matter," says Professor Helmut Dosch, Chairman of the DESY Board of Directors.

  • Dark matter experiment results announced

    Updated: 2009-12-18 00:04:33
    In the analysis of new data, scientists from the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search experiment have detected two events that have characteristics consistent with the particles that physicists believe make up dark matter. However, there is a chance that both events could be the signatures of background particles–other particles with interactions that mimic the signals of dark matter candidates.

  • And the Eagerly-Awaited Dark Matter Result Is…

    Updated: 2009-12-17 21:08:33
    … not yet released, but we’ll find out in just a bit. 2:00 p.m. Pacific time, to be exact. Last week we mongered the rumor that the CDMS experiment was going to announce an exciting new result soon — and that time is now. (My guess remains: some interesting data that falls well [...]

  • Newswire: INFN - The first Italian website dedicated to the LHC

    Updated: 2009-12-16 06:00:00
    The first Italian website dedicated exclusively to the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the large particle accelerator located at CERN in Geneva, has been created. The site is managed by the Press Office of Italy's National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN) and was activated simultaneously with the completion of the first complete cycle of the particles within the accelerator's 27-km ring, after the accident that occurred last year. The address is: http://www.infn.it/lhcitalia/

  • Newswire: CERN - Colour X-ray Technology Set to Save Lives

    Updated: 2009-12-14 06:00:00
    Geneva, 14 December 2009 Medical studies are soon to start with the MARS scanner, a revolutionary CT scanner developed by the University of Canterbury[1], New Zealand. The scanner, which incorporates technology developed at the world's leading particle physics research centre, CERN[2], was recently shipped to research partners in North America. Today a student from Canterbury arrives in North America to use the scanner to study heart disease. This development puts the technology, known as Medipix[3], firmly on the path to saving lives.

  • Newswire: KEK - Statement on Japanese science funding by KEK Director General Atsuto Suzuki--Laboratory solicits worldwide opinion

    Updated: 2009-12-02 06:00:00
    In response to the prospect of severe budget cuts for Japanese science research, Dr. Atsuto Suzuki, Director General of Japan's High Energy Accelerator Research Organization, or KEK, this week issued the following statement and put out a call for opinions from the worldwide scientific community. The research program at High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK) is facing a grave possibility of a severe budget cut, as recommended by the recently issued Public Budget Review by Japanese government. This affects Japanese renowned research programs including the ones hosted by KEK, such as elementary particle physics and related fields in astrophysics, material and life sciences. More than 260 universities and laboratories attend these programs. I would like to take this opportunity to explain to you what KEK is doing to enhance its research and education programs, and also would like to solicit your opinions.

  • Newswire: CERN - LHC sets new world record

    Updated: 2009-11-30 10:30:00
    Geneva, 30 November 2009. CERN's Large Hadron Collider has today become the world's highest energy particle accelerator, having accelerated its twin beams of protons to an energy of 1.18 TeV in the early hours of the morning. This exceeds the previous world record of 0.98 TeV, which had been held by the US Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory's Tevatron collider since 2001. It marks another important milestone on the road to first physics at the LHC in 2010.

  • Newswire: KEK - First Neutrino Events Observed at T2K Near Detector

    Updated: 2009-11-24 06:00:00
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  • Newswire: CERN - Two circulating beams bring first collisions in the LHC

    Updated: 2009-11-23 06:00:00
    Geneva, 23 November 2009. Today the LHC circulated two beams simultaneously for the first time, allowing the operators to test the synchronization of the beams and giving the experiments their first chance to look for proton-proton collisions. With just one bunch of particles circulating in each direction, the beams can be made to cross in up to two places in the ring. From early in the afternoon, the beams were made to cross at points 1 and 5, home to the ATLAS and CMS detectors, both of which were on the lookout for collisions. Later, beams crossed at points 2 and 8, ALICE and LHCb.

  • Newswire: CERN - The LHC is back

    Updated: 2009-11-20 06:00:00
    Geneva, 20 November 2009. Particle beams are once again circulating in the world's most powerful particle accelerator, CERN 's Large Hadron Collider (LHC). This news comes after the machine was handed over for operation on Wednesday morning. A clockwise circulating beam was established at ten o'clock this evening. This is an important milestone on the road towards first physics at the LHC, expected in 2010.

  • Super-K Sonic Boooom!

    Updated: 2009-11-06 08:49:00
    : skip to main skip to sidebar Experimental Particle Physicists at Imperial College London Undergraduate and Postgraduate students , Research Associates and Staff at the Imperial College London High Energy Physics Group . everyone is invited to add comments 06 November 2009 Super-K Sonic Boooom Post by Yoshi photograph by Nick Ballon Well done Tom indeed , but we on T2K are also mixing it up with non-physicists and artists in our case in an artist's rendition of Super-Kamiokande , built under London Bridge Station , complete with accompanying sonic booooums . Super K Sonic Booooum Nelly Ben Hayoun , sound by Tim Olden Wed 4 to Sat 14 8pm Come on a fantastic voyage on a dingy that floats on 50 000 tonnes of extremely pure water where neutrinos interact with electrons in a massive Sonic Boom Take part on this risky experiment with unique insights from scientists from Imperial College London and Queen Mary University who works with the Neutrino Observatory Super K and T2K in Japan , as SNO in . Canada www.nellyben.com This is in the amazing Shunt Lounge and will be on Friday 6th and Saturday 7th and again from Wednesday 11th till Saturday . 14th Everyone is welcome , but you need to

  • Three Minute Wonders

    Updated: 2009-11-01 23:23:00
    : skip to main skip to sidebar Experimental Particle Physicists at Imperial College London Undergraduate and Postgraduate students , Research Associates and Staff at the Imperial College London High Energy Physics Group . everyone is invited to add comments 01 November 2009 Three Minute Wonders Post by Tom Whyntie As the Large Hadron Collider gears up to getting proton collisions before Christmas fingers well , pretty much everything , actually crossed I'm pleased to announce that my Three Minute Wonders will be broadcast this week Channel 4 Monday and Thursday both at . 12:30pm As part of the prize for winning FameLab 2009 I got the chance to turn two of my three minute speeches into Three Minute Wonders with Wall To Wall Television Directed by Peter Sweasey , Finding Nothing looks at why a null result would actually be a tremendous return on a 5 billion investment based on my final-winning talk below while Thursday's episode takes a look at the search for Dark Matter at the CMS experiment It's not hard to imagine that the current economic climate will lead to a smaller funding pot for science , and that all areas of research are going to feel the pinch . The field of particle

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