Japanese cosmology centre secures long-term future
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Tokyo institute receives $7.5m endowment from US-based Kavli Foundation
Neutrinos point to rare stellar fusion
Updated: 2012-02-09 16:23:24Borexino catches the first glimpse of pep reactionListening with a 'quantum ear'
Updated: 2012-02-09 15:41:25Tiny microphone could pave the way for quantum acousticsTritonTM Cryogen Free Dilution Refrigerator
Updated: 2012-02-09 11:59:26TritonTM Cryogen Free Dilution RefrigeratorThe dream of open science
Updated: 2012-02-09 11:00:00Matin Durrani reviews Michael Nielsen’s Reinventing Discovery: the New Era of Networked ScienceThe dream of open science
Updated: 2012-02-09 11:00:00Matin Durrani reviews Michael Nielsen’s Reinventing Discovery: the New Era of Networked ScienceWeb life
Updated: 2012-02-09 10:00:00SciEnts and Sciencelive – two sites that offer slightly different takes on scientific outreach and entertainmentPhysicists create new slow-light technique
Updated: 2012-02-08 18:03:00Electromagnetically induced transparency seen in nuclear system for first timeHow To Think About Quantum Field Theory
Updated: 2012-02-07 23:15:52I continue to believe that “quantum field theory” is a concept that we physicists don’t do nearly enough to explain to a wider audience. And I’m not going to do it here! But I will link to other people thinking about how to think about quantum field theory. Over on the Google+, I linked to [...]Reader challenge: My physical romance
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Before next week’s holiday, we at Symmetry Breaking want to know about your affair with physics. Send us a love letter (or “Dear John” letter) about your research, a playful pun about a physical concept, or a story about a connection you’ve made with a fellow scientist. Post your comments here or send them to scharley@fnal.gov. We will publish our favorites on Feb. 14.The Langlands Program and Quantum Field Theory
Updated: 2012-02-02 01:59:53Edward Frenkel is here this semester in the math department at Columbia, and he’s giving a series of lectures on a topic dear to my heart. Video of his lectures on The Langlands Program and Quantum Field Theory is starting … Continue reading →Short Items
Updated: 2012-01-31 17:10:59A few short items: No Higgs news on the LHC front, but on the BSM front today’s CERN talk Update on Searches for New Physics in CMS provides more evidence against the various exotic scenarios heavily advertised over the last … Continue reading →Fermilab plans for a future of discovery
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The only laboratory in the United States dedicated entirely to particle physics recently released its plan for the next two decades.Quantum mechanics and the square root of Brownian motion
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There is a very good reason why I was silent in the past days. The reason is that I was involved in An Introduction to Group Therapy for Particle Physics
Updated: 2012-01-24 15:54:55The latest CERN Courier book review section is out here. Besides a long review of Frank Close’s The Infinity Puzzle, there are some short reviews, including one for Stephen Heywood’s Symmetries and Conservation Laws in Particle Physics: An Introduction to … Continue reading →Scientists finish installation of 80-ton ‘particle thermometer’ at ALICE detector
Updated: 2012-01-24 14:50:24Scientists on the ALICE experiment at the Large Hadron Collider just completed the installation of a crucial component for tracking high-energy particle jets. Without it, physicists would be lacking crucial tools to select which events out of billions to store and analyze.The Clockwork Universe
Updated: 2012-01-21 23:41:23God needs autonomous humans as the objects of his love, as I tried to show in my last post. I comparSamuli Kemppi - Quantum Mechanics
Updated: 2012-01-20 09:21:12Support the label and the artist and buy it! Buy link: BoomkatQuantum Mumbo-jumbo
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Today, in Laser’s lecture, heard two most interesting lines about quantum mechanics from profeMathematical Foundations of Quantum Field Theory
Updated: 2012-01-17 23:18:57The Simons Center for Geometry and Physics at Stony Brook is having a workshop this week on Mathematical Foundations of Quantum Field Theory. I was hoping to find time to go out there and hear some of the talks, but … Continue reading →Kurt J. Lesker Company Ltd
Updated: 2012-01-16 11:46:10For over 55 years the Kurt J Lesker Company has been a leading design, manufacturer and global distributor of vacuum technology solutions for research and production applications.What is your favorite deep, elegant, or beautiful explanation?
Updated: 2012-01-15 18:50:09Science publishing impresario John Brockman’s Edge web-site each year runs a “Question of the year” feature, with short pieces from a wide range of people providing their answer to the question. The past few years I’ve passed on their invitation … Continue reading →Newswire: CNRS - GUINEVERE : towards cleaner nuclear energy
Updated: 2012-01-11 06:00:00It's a worldwide first: the Belgian Nuclear Research Centre (SCKâ¢CEN) has succeeded in operating a lead-cooled nuclear reactor controlled by a particle accelerator built by CNRS. The objective is to control the operation of nuclear reactors more easily and produce less polluting nuclear waste in the long term. This operational model, known as GUINEVERE, was also built in collaboration with CEA, the European Commission and around ten European laboratories.Newswire: KEK - Belle Discovers New Heavy 'Exotic Hadrons'
Updated: 2012-01-10 06:00:00Two unexpected new hadrons containing bottom quarks have been discovered by the Belle Experiment using the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK)'s B Factory (KEKB), a highly-luminous, electron-positron collider. These new particles have electric charge and are thought to be "exotic" hadrons -- non-standard hadrons, containing at least four quarks. Previously, a series of new and unexpected exotic hadrons containing charm and anti-charm quarks have been observed. This latest discovery from Belle demonstrates the existence of exotic hadrons containing at least four quarks in a particle system including bottom quarks.Newswire: KEK - The mechanism that explains why our universe was born with 3 dimensions: a 40-year-old puzzle of superstring theory solved by supercomputer
Updated: 2011-12-22 06:00:00A group of three researchers from KEK, Shizuoka University and Osaka University has for the first time revealed the way our universe was born with 3 spatial dimensions from 10-dimensional superstring theory1 in which spacetime has 9 spatial directions and 1 temporal direction. This result was obtained by numerical simulation on a supercomputer.Newswire: CERN - European particle physics plots course for the future
Updated: 2011-12-15 06:00:00Geneva, 15 December 2011. CERN Council today announced an Open Symposium to be held on 10-13 September 2012 at Cracow, Poland for the purpose of updating the European Strategy for Particle Physics. Council adopted Europe's current strategy for the field in July 2006 with an understanding that it be brought up to date at appropriate intervals of typically five years.