Driving the next magnet revolution
Updated: 2012-05-22 15:20:43
The Department of Energy recently presented an Early Career Award to Tengming Shen, an engineer working to spur the next magnet revolution.- The Department of Energy recently presented an Early Career Award to Tengming Shen, an engineer working to spur the next magnet revolution.
Dark Matter Makes a Comeback
Updated: 2012-05-21 19:43:55
Recent reports of dark matter’s demise may be greatly exaggerated, according to a new paper from researchers at the Institute for Advanced Study. (...)Read the rest of Dark Matter Makes a Comeback (571 words) © Jason Major for Universe Today, 2012. | Permalink | 14 comments | Post tags: Astronomy, astrophysics, Cosmology, Dark Matter, galaxy, [...]Higgs Update
Updated: 2012-05-21 15:45:03The announcement of new Higgs results from the LHC is now scheduled for about a month and a half from now, July 7th, 9:30 and 10am Melbourne time, at ICHEP2012. The LHC is performing well, with nearly 2.5 fb-1 of … Continue reading →Synopsis: Layering to Warm Up
Updated: 2012-05-21 14:00:00Alternating layers of insulating materials form a rudimentary device that controls thermal currents. Published Mon May 21, 2012Viewpoint: Quantum Dipolar Gases in Boson or Fermion Flavor
Updated: 2012-05-21 14:00:00Lanthanide atoms are offering the best opportunities to study the effects of strong dipolar interactions in a quantum gas. Published Mon May 21, 2012On the long road
Updated: 2012-05-19 00:00:02Finally, it’s summer time! As I’ve said from the beginning, summer is a very nice time to be a professor, as we don’t have to do half of our job for these few months. But already this summer is filling up with things to do, and a lot of it involves travel. I have trips [...]20 Things You Didn't Know About... Allergies | DISCOVER Magazine
Updated: 2012-05-18 15:15:00.
Focus: Electron Spin Influences Nanotube Motion
Updated: 2012-05-18 14:00:00The oscillations of a carbon nanotube can strongly affect the spin of an electron trapped on the tube, and the tube can also be affected by the spin, according to theory. Published Fri May 18, 2012Scientists celebrate completion of underground physics laboratory
Updated: 2012-05-17 14:00:18
The elevator that sinks into the Vale Creighton Mine near Sudbury, Ontario, is a gateway to two different worlds. One is Canada’s largest nickel mine, opened at the turn of the last century and still in operation. The other is SNOLAB, a large underground particle physics laboratory, the grand opening of which will take place today.Synopsis: U-shaped Grains Get Clingy
Updated: 2012-05-17 14:00:00Piles of staples stand up to shaking better if the staple prongs have an intermediate length. Published Thu May 17, 2012Synopsis: Two Donors Are Better Than One
Updated: 2012-05-17 14:00:00Pairs of donor atoms read out the energy levels in a silicon nanowire. Published Thu May 17, 2012Synopsis: Wave of Correlation
Updated: 2012-05-17 14:00:00Theorists can now calculate the speed with which correlations travel in a chain of interacting atoms. Published Thu May 17, 2012The Smell of SUSY
Updated: 2012-05-17 00:34:42The implications of the failure to find SUSY at the LHC are beginning to sink into the particle physics community: the paradigm that dominated the subject for the past 30 years has collapsed in the face of experimental (non)-evidence, threatening … Continue reading →Thursday: Chat with physicists on Twitter
Updated: 2012-05-16 20:08:23
Tomorrow at 1 p.m. EST, accelerator physicists from four national laboratories will take to Twitter to discuss discovery science with the tweeting public. To take part in the event, dubbed Lab Breakthrough Office Hours, use the hashtag #labchat.Supersymmetry, epicycles and Santa Claus
Updated: 2012-05-16 05:05:00
: , Physics Without Ideology Bite by Bite The search for a theory of everything : satire about bad candidates and gentle fun about good candidates , such as the strand-spaghetti . model 16 May 2012 Supersymmetry , epicycles and Santa Claus 1. Experiments show that there is no supersymmetry in nature . For most humans , this argument is sufficient . For the rest , here are a few more . arguments 2. The standard model has around 20 unexplained parameters . Supersymmetry introduces another 100 or so , even less unexplained ones , to explain the twenty . This means : supersymmetry has zero explanatory power . Nobody would believe that intelligent people reason like this . Supersymmetry is the epicycle theory of modern physics . No , epicycles needed fewer additional parameters , and epicyclesResearchers developing underwater neutrino experiment make oceanographic discovery
Updated: 2012-05-15 22:45:53
Researchers deciding where to place the planned Neutrino Mediterranean Observatory, or NEMO, were measuring water currents and temperatures when they stumbled upon unexpected patterns in the water.CHARM of Hawaii
Updated: 2012-05-14 20:43:50I’m blogging from the site of CHARM-2012 conference, which has just started in Honolulu, Hawaii. This is a fantastic conference at a fantastic place! The conference will have four full-packed days filled with many aspects of physics related to charmed quark. As I reported earlier, many exciting recent results are associated with charm quark. Why [...]Viewpoint: A Closer Connection Between Entanglement and Nonlocality
Updated: 2012-05-14 14:00:00A generalization of one of the most famous experiments in quantum foundations provides a powerful new unifying concept. Published Mon May 14, 2012Viewpoint: The Smallest Thermal Machines
Updated: 2012-05-14 14:00:00New functionalities might arise from rethinking the essential ingredients needed to build a heat-driven machine. Published Mon May 14, 2012Focus: Metallic Glass isn’t All Glassy
Updated: 2012-05-11 14:00:00Metallic glasses, new materials that are strong and durable, are not entirely disordered on the atomic scale but can have regions of near-crystalline order. Published Fri May 11, 2012Needle in a haystack
Updated: 2012-05-10 15:31:33
We are back to discussing B physics today, with the observation of the rare decay: \(B^- \rightarrow \pi^- \mu^+ \mu^-\). So what is this decay? It’s a \(B^-\) meson (made of a b and an anti-u quark) decaying into a \(\pi^-\) meson (made of a d and an anti-u quark) and two muons. And why [...]Synopsis: Thinking Inside the Box
Updated: 2012-05-10 14:00:00Finding the optimal solution to filling a volume with spheres could be useful for modeling nanoparticles. Published Thu May 10, 2012Synopsis: Scaling the Heights
Updated: 2012-05-10 14:00:00Researchers have found an exact solution to an equation describing growth of materials at interfaces. Published Thu May 10, 2012New accelerator to study steps on the path to fusion
Updated: 2012-05-09 15:30:27
Berkeley Lab scientists and engineers announced in a press release today that they have completed a machine tailor-made to examine an approach to fusion power.Phenomenology 2012
Updated: 2012-05-09 01:20:54This week at the University of Pittsburgh the Phenomenology 2012 Symposium has talks reviewing the current situation in particle physics phenomenology. Not much new, but there is one plenary talk on string phenomenology, Cumrun Vafa’s Stringy Predictions for Particle Physics. … Continue reading →20 Things You Didn't Know About... Science Fraud | DISCOVER Magazine
Updated: 2012-05-08 15:50:00Fermilab scientists revise plans for construction of new accelerator project
Updated: 2012-05-07 22:16:21
With their eyes on the tight federal budget, scientists plan to divide Project X, the accelerator project that will power Fermilab's future experiments, into phases in order to lessen the initial costs.Viewpoint: Pushing Bits Through a Spin Wire
Updated: 2012-05-07 14:00:00Short chains of iron atoms deposited on a metal surface could be used to transmit bits of magnetic information. Published Mon May 07, 2012Viewpoint: Wiring Up Displacement Currents
Updated: 2012-05-07 14:00:00Specially designed waveguides act like conduits for high-frequency displacement currents. Published Mon May 07, 2012And So It Begins: Pheno 2012
Updated: 2012-05-07 12:00:31
Hi All! Today marks the beginning of the Phenomenology 2012 Symposium, Pheno for short, or #Pheno2012 if you are into hashtags, here at the University of Pittsburgh. It will definitely be an exciting three days because this conference is dedicated solely to promoting the partnership and collaboration between experimentalists and theorists. For experimentalists, [...]イギリスの重い雲の下で．
Updated: 2012-05-07 01:54:42
Quantum Diaries Thoughts on work and life from particle physicists from around the . world Home About Quantum Diaries Latest Posts All Blogs John Felde UC Davis USA View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.03.05 Fast Photosensors for Neutrino Physics 2011.11.22 Recent Events at UC Davis 2011.11.09 First Double Chooz Neutrino Oscillation Result USLHC USLHC USA View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.04.30 We’ll deal with that later 2012.04.28 The LHC sneaks along 2012.04.24 Tetrahedral Carbon Lattice Frank Simon MPI for Physics Germany View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2011.12.14 After the talk is before the talk 2011.10.24 Breathe 2011.10.22 The CLIC Physics and Detectors CDR Flip Tanedo USLHC USA View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.04.17 Name these brands plants Name these particles 2012.04.11Half Hour to Midnight
Updated: 2012-05-05 18:24:31Matt Strassler posts here about a recent panel discussion of phenomenologists talking about the implications of the latest results from the LHC. You can listen to the thing for yourself, and see what Matt has to say at his blog, … Continue reading →Focus: Proteins Hook up Where Water Allows
Updated: 2012-05-04 14:00:00The binding of two proteins is strongest in regions where the packing of surrounding water molecules is already disrupted. Published Fri May 04, 2012NOvA neutrino detector’s future home in Minnesota complete
Updated: 2012-05-03 19:29:16
On April 27, more than 250 people gathered to inaugurate the NOvA facility near the Ash River in northern Minnesota.Synopsis: Electrons Arrive By and By
Updated: 2012-05-03 14:00:00A quantum theory of electrons in mesoscopic systems reveals the intervals at which they arrive after waiting to pass through a gate. Published Thu May 03, 2012Synopsis: Listening to Spin Fluctuations
Updated: 2012-05-03 14:00:00Spin-noise spectroscopy reveals a functional transition in the spin decay of quantum dots. Published Thu May 03, 2012Synopsis: Catching the Electron Spin Wave
Updated: 2012-05-03 14:00:00Researchers have confined and manipulated electron spin waves in hydrogen gas. Published Thu May 03, 2012Synopsis: Particle Families Come in Three
Updated: 2012-05-03 14:00:00The existence of three families of fundamental particles may result from our universe behaving like a topological insulator, according to a theoretical proposal. Published Thu May 03, 2012Synopsis: Force Diagrams on Skis
Updated: 2012-05-03 14:00:00Simulations of skiers predict the danger zones on the slopes. Published Thu May 03, 2012May 2012 issue of symmetry available
Updated: 2012-05-01 21:07:04
We’ve done it again. The May issue of symmetry is now available online.Unification in four *spatial* dimensions
Updated: 2012-05-01 10:57:52
TweetWe have shown throughout the Imagineer’s Chronicles there would be many theoretical advantages to defining the universe in terms four *spatial* dimensions instead of four dimensions space-time. One is that it would allow one to derive a common mechanism responsible for all the forces found in nature by extrapolating observations made in a three-dimensional environment [...]FACET test facility hosts first users
Updated: 2012-04-30 20:58:57
After months of installation and commissioning efforts, FACET, the Facility for Advanced Accelerator Experimental Tests, welcomed its first two groups of experimenters on Friday.We’ll deal with that later…
Updated: 2012-04-30 19:24:43
In my last post, I described the different LHC collision setup at LHCb this year. Today, I thought I would describe the different LHCb trigger setup. Now what is the LHCb trigger, I hear you all ask? I actually wrote a post on the topic last year, which I invite you all to read for [...]Viewpoint: Keeping One Step Ahead of Errors
Updated: 2012-04-30 14:00:00Statistical mechanical models are the key to understanding the performance of error correction in topological quantum computers. Published Mon Apr 30, 2012Viewpoint: A Walk Along the Dripline
Updated: 2012-04-30 14:00:00Measurements of radioactive, neutron-rich isotopes of argon are paving the way for experiments at new facilities that will explore the neutron dripline. Published Mon Apr 30, 2012What Is The Large Hadron Collider?
Updated: 2012-04-30 12:14:24
Most of all, the LHC is a machine with the purpose of breaking the known laws of the Universe. Hi All, Us QD folks appreciate all the questions and comments we get about the Large Hadron Collider, what we do there, and how we do it. Being head-deep in physics, though, I sometimes get the [...]Focus: Curling Physics Unraveled
Updated: 2012-04-27 14:00:00Experiments and simulations lead to a new model for the curling of a thin strip, which could be useful for plant growth and micromechanics. Published Fri Apr 27, 2012CMS collaboration discovers its first new particle
Updated: 2012-04-27 10:48:43
Members of the CMS collaboration announced the experiment’s first discovery of a new particle today.Synopsis: Prime Numbers in Frozen Territory
Updated: 2012-04-26 14:00:00The behavior of freezing transitions in glasses is related to the statistical properties of prime numbers. Published Thu Apr 26, 2012Synopsis: Quantum Testing
Updated: 2012-04-26 14:00:00Testing hypotheses about the validity of different dynamical models can now be done on a much wider range of quantum systems. Published Thu Apr 26, 2012Synopsis: Science of Slosh
Updated: 2012-04-26 14:00:00An image analysis program reveals the biomechanics of walking with coffee. Published Thu Apr 26, 2012Siegel has given up
Updated: 2012-04-26 05:41:00: Physics Without Ideology Bite by Bite The search for a theory of everything : satire about bad candidates and gentle fun about good candidates , such as the strand-spaghetti . model 26 April 2012 Siegel has given up Warren Siegel is a physicist famous for his aggressive comments and his small stature . As a woman , I do not like nasty bearded dwarfs , so I admit being partial . Siegel works on strings and supersymmetry . His aggressive behavior against other people searching for a final theory is well-known . Besides , Siegel probably is the only person in the world claiming in writing that supersymmetry is predicted by experiment . Despite his religious devotion to supersymmetry , since many years , his papers lack any physical idea , any notable advance and any relation to experiment .