Most Fermilab personnel have learned to ignore the ubiquitous booms, hums, growls and crackles of Fermilab machinery. But composer Mason Bates places these sounds center stage in his new piece "Alternative Energy."
Fluid structure interaction (or FSI) is one of the classic multiphysics couplings in science and engineering. It can be defined as the interaction between a deformable, or moving, structure and a surrounding, or internal, fluid flow. Familiar examples involving this interaction are wing flutter, building sway, valve chatter and, of course, the Tacoma Narrows Bridge [...]
: skip to main skip to sidebar Neutrino Blog Swimming in a sea of the shyest , strangest and smallest things in our Universe : . Neutrinos Pages Home My Homepage Saturday , 28 January 2012 From Tokai to Kamioka Once More After the earthquake which hit the East coast of Japan in March of last year the Tokai to Kamioka T2K experiment was taken out of action But , with the hard work and determination of many scientists and engineers , just 10 months on it is almost back to 100 operation and rearing to . go The J-PARC Proton Accelerator , courtesy of . KEK Many aspects of the experiment that had to be repaired or rebuilt the largest and most complex element was the proton particle accelerator pictured left used to produce the beam of neutrinos . Magnets , used to accelerate and bend the
Fun post for everyone today. In response to last week’s post on describing KEK Laboratory’s discovery of additional exotic hadrons, I got an absolutely terrific question from a QD reader: Surprisingly, the answer to “How does an electron-positron collider produce quarks if neither particle contains any?” all begins with the inconspicuous photon. No Firefox, I [...]
The only laboratory in the United States dedicated entirely to particle physics recently released its plan for the next two decades.
This week the Earth has seen some increased magnetic activity in the upper atmosphere, and that means we got to see aurore! Across Northern Europe and the Northern USA people looked to the skies to see the northern lights. An aurora is one of the most beautiful sights in the natural world, and a phenomenon [...]
: Log in Email Password Remember me Your login is case sensitive I have forgotten my password Register now Activate my subscription Institutional login Athens login close My New Scientist Home News In-Depth Articles Blogs Opinion TV Galleries Topic Guides Last Word Subscribe Dating new Look for Science Jobs SPACE TECH ENVIRONMENT HEALTH LIFE PHYSICS MATH SCIENCE IN SOCIETY Sky shimmers after solar storm 21:20 25 January 2012 Picture of the Day Space David Shiga , reporter Image : Göran Strand A massive solar outburst buffeted the Earth yesterday , giving rise to beautiful auroral displays in many places , including Sweden , where this photo was taken by Göran Strand Strand took a 360-degree panorama then wrapped the results into a circle to give this unusual . perspective Auroras are
This article first appeared in Fermilab Today on Jan. 24. Despite the biting cold and snow, scientists and Fermilab personnel gathered outside to break ground for Fermilab’s new Liquid Argon Test Facility. The facility, expected to be completed spring 2013, will house liquid-argon based experiments. Scientists have speculated since the 1980s that liquid argon could [...]
Editor’s note: One of the bonuses of Fermilab having much of its scientific infrastructure underground is that it allows for a wealth of open space on the 6,800-acre campus. Fermilab and volunteers from neighboring communities use that space to create havens of restored native habitats to help wildlife flourish. So far, more than 1,100 acres [...]
Daresbury’s high-intensity proton accelerator, called EMMA, gains its technological edge through an accelerator concept nearly abandoned a half century ago. 
Hi All, Exciting news came out the Japanese physics lab KEK (@KEK_jp, @KEK_en) last week about some pretty exotic combinations of quarks and anti-quarks. And yes, “exotic” is the new “tantalizing.” At any rate, I generally like assuming that people do not know much about hadrons so here is a quick explanation of what they [...]
Submissions opened today for Google’s second annual science fair. Last year’s winner earned a trip to CERN laboratory in Europe, among other things. This year not one, but two particle physics institutions will contribute to the fair. Engineer Steve Myers, director of accelerators and technology at CERN, and physicist Young-Kee Kim, deputy director of Fermilab, will each participate on the final judging panel. The grand prize winner will receive a trip to visit both labs.
Two teams of physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Fermilab and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have independently made the largest direct measurements of the invisible scaffolding of the universe, building maps of dark matter using new methods that, in turn, will remove key hurdles for understanding dark energy with ground-based telescopes.
Ten months after the earthquake and tsunami that devastated northern Japan, the Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex (J-PARC) completed the first full test run for their system.
The first new particle was seen at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Switzerland shortly before Christmas. The ATLAS collaboration announced the discovery of the particle Chi-b (3P), which consists of a bottom quark and antiquark particle bound together by the strong force. This force holds all atomic nuclei together so understanding Chi-b (3P) could [...]
: 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 25 December 2011 Happy Christmas from the Imperial College High Energy Physics Group Post by Yoshi Uchida The other day we had our HEP group party as we do every year , with about 80 group members and guests participating . The dinner buffet is always the centrepiece of the party , with dozens of hand-made dishes and puddings brought in by group members for everyone to enjoy . The first year PhD students provided the main entertainment for the party , with their Pin the Higgs game , where we all queued up in front of a Higgs Boson mass