A collection of articles about neutrinos 8 AXI 2012-02-06T11:43:44 Barry D Adams barry.david.ottley@googlemail.com Interactions.org News Wire 2012-02-06T11:35:44

-- Antimatter mysteries 2: How do you make antimatter? -- The great data explosion -- Big Bang machine detectors will be 'even more perfect' -- Particle physics study finds new data for extra Z-bosons and potential fifth force of nature -- That Other Theory - Loop Quantum Gravity -- Officials to break ground on cutting-edge international physics lab in Northern Minnesota

56593bd0d52313ef712a2d0dccb0cb30 The Institute of Physics blog 2012-02-06T10:33:13

Today’s physics news: cool sun could host habitable planet, bendy battery gives smart fabrics a charge and more The Night Sky in February 2012 Interesting chart showing the night sky in February Telegraph Cool sun could host habitable planet New super-Earth detected within the habitable zone of a cool star Physics World Bendy battery gives [...]

94d9210dbc00f7341693ae47a3f31334 Universe Today 2012-02-05T01:19:34

According to Wikipedia, a journal club is a group of individuals who meet regularly to critically evaluate recent articles in the scientific literature. And of course, the first rule of Journal Club is… don’t talk about Journal Club. So, without further ado – today’s journal article is about the latest findings in neutrino astronomy. Today’s [...]

cbadd554bf3501077c32645fcb06699f The Institute of Physics blog 2012-02-03T10:49:42

Today’s physics news: Scientists sign petition to boycott academic publisher Elsevier, Fourth potentially habitable planet discovered and more Scientists sign petition to boycott academic publisher Elsevier More than 3,000 academics, including several Fields medal-winning mathematicians, have put their names to a petition declaring their intention to boycott the academic publisher Elsevier. The “Cost of Knowledge” [...]

412a12b9b914e1a9a0435dd288d33449 Short Sharp Science 2012-02-02T22:27:24

: 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 Spacecraft probes gas cloud swaddling the solar system 22:27 2 February 2012 Space David Shiga , reporter Like a plane flying through fog , the solar system is pushing its way out of a cloud of interstellar matter enveloping it . It will take a while yet to escape , but new observations show what the cloud is made of and it is mysteriously different from the composition of the . sun Previous observations suggested the

9ff9b2643a72599e241eeb8650a24ec7 Short Sharp Science 2012-02-02T16:49:09

: 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 Colourful cancer cells snag micro-photography prize 16:49 2 February 2012 Picture of the Day Flora Graham , deputy editor , newscientist.com Image : Geoffrey Grandjean , MD Anderson Cancer Center GE Healthcare An ovarian cancer researcher found the beauty in a horrific disease to win the 2011 IN Cell Analyzer Image Competition . Geoffrey Grandjean from the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston , Texas captured this image

4abdfd82b8549fdff50590fd28f8c2f8 symmetry breaking 2012-02-02T14:30:38

Editor’s note: This article comes from US LHC intern Amy Dusto, who is currently working as a communicator at CERN. She is introducing LHC Lunch, a series of articles and videos she created while getting to know some of the members of experiments at the Large Hadron Collider from U.S. institutions. The busy cafeteria known [...]

68ad75d006dafd3895d4afc51bee850b The Institute of Physics blog 2012-02-02T11:02:03

Today’s physics news: Scientists uncover strength of spider web design, Earth in for bumpy ride as solar storms hit and more Scientists uncover strength of spider web design Researchers claim the findings could be used to help design a new generation of super strength materials. Telegraph Getting to the froth of the matter Physicists create [...]

6dcfe953ae0dedc91aee87b9b3fc714a Short Sharp Science 2012-02-02T00:59:26

: 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 Spitzer peers through the dust into star nursery 12:59 2 February 2012 Picture of the Day Space Lisa Grossman , physical sciences and space reporter Image : NASA JPL-Caltech Havard-Smithsonian CfA This churning cloud of dust and gas marks one of the richest regions of star formation in the Milky Way . The region , dubbed Cygnus X for its location in the constellation Cygnus the Swan is the birthplace of the largest

1941e31955b52409674c3e57a81e7057 symmetry breaking 2012-02-01T15:42:19

Since 2000, the three Sloan Digital Sky Surveys (SDSS I, II, and III) have surveyed well over a quarter of the night sky, producing the biggest 3-D color map of the Universe ever made. Now, scientists have used this visual information for the most accurate computation yet of how matter clumped together – from a time when the universe was only half its present age until now.

950cf9aa0e46599019591ab409f3da32 symmetry breaking 2012-01-31T15:33:37

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."

2073f40ef333224a847b413251c116b2 Cosmic Variance 2012-01-30T16:56:26

While I have the blog open, let me throw in a quick two cents to support the Boycott Elsevier movement. As most working scientists know, Elsevier is a publishing company that controls many important journals, and uses their position to charge amazingly exorbitant prices to university libraries — and then makes the published papers very [...]

f1a386567ff70e1b1c9784642e6af6cb Neutrino Blog 2012-01-28T09:05:00

: 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

7343b7dc25703b002ce2d34160593c2c Quantum Diaries 2012-01-27T15:21:13

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 [...]

1cc99aa6183897128dea4de931bdb739 symmetry breaking 2012-01-26T16:58:36

The only laboratory in the United States dedicated entirely to particle physics recently released its plan for the next two decades.

b866c2a313d529a2a4db6ae42b64a962 Quantum Diaries 2012-01-26T00:18:58

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 [...]

7266bb43dd823694f35c6b21a9b9114a Short Sharp Science 2012-01-25T21:20:35

: 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

c7eb73a02c3f72d792422e6b8300989d Quantum Diaries 2012-01-24T15:47:46

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 [...]

8df61f380da73782eb3f69979679a95d Quantum Diaries 2012-01-24T15:39:45

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 [...]

c40d86a6605fab24d043a78f9a14d032 symmetry breaking 2012-01-24T14:50:24

Scientists 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.

d6c7b7f64e3442395029324383156b07 Quantum Diaries 2012-01-23T01:48:11

So what is the largest neutrino detector in the world? This discussion came up in regards to a very nice little educational video on YouTube that mentions the ANITA experiment: (these minutephysics pieces are quite good!) So, ANITA is the balloon-borne experiment mentioned in the video and of which I am a collaborator. But folks [...]

3c769c2b36ba92b043b1d07ec512c2e3 symmetry breaking 2012-01-20T17:33:32

Daresbury’s high-intensity proton accelerator, called EMMA, gains its technological edge through an accelerator concept nearly abandoned a half century ago.

7d46c90da8e18fdc0f4174109e38bf4e PHYSorg.com: Feature story 2012-01-17T13:10:01

(PhysOrg.com) -- Today’s most powerful telescopes collect huge amounts of data from the most distant locations of the universe – yet much of the information is simply discarded because it involves small length scales that are difficult to model. In an effort to waste less data from cosmological surveys, a team of scientists has developed a new technique that allows researchers to use otherwise unusable data by "clipping" some of the highest density peaks, which present the greatest challenge to models. This data could provide a way to address some unsolved problems in physics, including estimating the neutrino mass and investigating theories of modified gravity.

979572f84f688a82a9fe63115a2116cf symmetry breaking 2012-01-12T16:17:34

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.

5a58d10db8c56518c3fa5b2452c0824f symmetry breaking 2012-01-11T10:29:50

The Belle Experiment at KEK laboratory in Japan has discovered two unexpected new types of hadrons.

c5f3d4cad1e114cae3aafa4f0db09c64 Interactions.org News Wire 2012-01-11T06:00:00

It's a worldwide first: the Belgian Nuclear Research Centre (SCK•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.

4dfab707c418920ddd6c11d8c1b0f64e Axitronics 2012-01-10T23:53:00

: skip to main skip to sidebar Axitronics Dark energy solved By giving neutrino there own type of electric and magnetic forces . The force is known as the axial force , thus the title , axitronics , as the equivalent of electronics for . neutrinos Tuesday , 10 January 2012 Dark Energy and Expansion 101 BDOA wrote this over at Science 2.0 in reply to an articles on the Einstein plus Higgs expansions paradox . How can space expanded when there's an Aether except relatisticly invarent like field of Higgs particle in it . I'll need to dumb this done to the level of the . readership Space doesn't expand next you'll be telling me that Hubble was a bungling . detective Its a good paradox though . Is there an energy cost of free space , as your expand the universe . Especially if that free space

01895113a7438e51fa7cf7733a3d5bc9 symmetry breaking 2012-01-10T19:38:23

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.

5cae1293f10b0c434f7743963c1e02ab Interactions.org News Wire 2012-01-10T06:00:00

Two 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.

eb0fb4edc287539ee563883f3d9516ac Interactions.org News Wire 2012-01-09T06:00:00

Scientists at Fermilab and Berkeley Lab build the biggest map of dark matter yet, using methods that will improve ground-based surveys BATAVIA, Illinois, and BERKELEY, California -- Two teams of physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Fermilab and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) 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.

6baac17182beed21c772190c0cae2bfe Axitronics 2012-01-04T11:48:00

: skip to main skip to sidebar Axitronics Dark energy solved By giving neutrino there own type of electric and magnetic forces . The force is known as the axial force , thus the title , axitronics , as the equivalent of electronics for . neutrinos Wednesday , 4 January 2012 Hiding a Z' Just five days ago I posted about results on how the Higgs Boson decayed , and suggested extra pairs of vector like quarks to make the photon signal match . Since then a pape r by Radovan Dermisek , Sung-Gi Kim , Aditi Raval has come out showing that a Z' hiding very near in mass to the standard models Z the neutral particle of the weak force solves the problem of the forward backward asymmetry in bottom quark creation . The Z' is around 92.5 GeV just 1GeV more missing than the ordinary Z interacts with

9ebedd1c3211cc7f4f4cd4e7506fb3d3 Axitronics 2011-12-31T11:49:00

: , skip to main skip to sidebar Axitronics Dark energy solved By giving neutrino there own type of electric and magnetic forces . The force is known as the axial force , thus the title , axitronics , as the equivalent of electronics for . neutrinos Saturday , 31 December 2011 LHC Higgs Boson 125 GeV , and not standard model On December the 13th 2011, the LHC released the first ever figures showing a Higgs Boson . This the particle or set of particles which give rise the mass of all the elementary particles in the universe . The signal was only around 3 sigma , after 5 femtobarnes of collisions , and woundn't ordinarily have been reguards has a proof of exists of the particle , except for the fact the physicists where already so sure that a Higgs Boson does exist . But the Higgs Boson they

da203d5eee2825e69205eb9bdb72b9aa Axitronics 2011-12-29T04:12:00

I'm now writing on Science 2.0 as well as this blog, at science 2.0 I may get actually readers, but I decided to right columns in both places. The reason being that Science 2.0 is general science site suitable for physics that is generally believed to be true. So when I write about my own ideas which may or may not be truth physics I'll place them here.

a44a8e202132e6f53a0117bc3699963d Axitronics 2011-12-28T01:05:00

: skip to main skip to sidebar Axitronics Dark energy solved By giving neutrino there own type of electric and magnetic forces . The force is known as the axial force , thus the title , axitronics , as the equivalent of electronics for . neutrinos Tuesday , 27 December 2011 Axial force the lost years The key discoveries in the Axial force actually where done in time period 1970 to 1990, the period before the Internet and exist on paper in science libraries for journals at the time.So when I wrote a paper on the Axial force , it ended up in Vixra the crank science Internet library , because not one person would give me an endorsement for using ArXiv s the mainstream science internet library . Somewhere in lost papers lives or dies the reasons thought at the time , why and axial can't exist

770976146698cbc16b8bb709858fcbae Posts on imperialhep.blogspot.com 2011-12-25T23:30:00

: 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 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

bd86f0ab61f5c5afa27599434231842d Interactions.org News Wire 2011-12-22T06:00:00

A 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.

3017d963a2950488e8f68baef83cab4c Interactions.org News Wire 2011-12-16T06:00:00

Batavia, Ill. - A new accelerator research facility being built at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory will bolster Illinois' reputation as a technology hub and foster job creation. The Illinois Accelerator Research Center (IARC) at the Department of Energy's Fermilab will provide a state-of-the-art facility for research, development and industrialization of particle accelerator technology. The design and construction of IARC is jointly funded by DOE and the State of Illinois.

234ab91018a23515daf3d98e8a4713a3 Interactions.org News Wire 2011-12-16T06:00:00

Geneva, 16 December 2011. At its 161st meeting at CERN1 today, the CERN Council unanimously voted to admit the Republic of Serbia to Associate Membership as the pre-stage to Membership of CERN. This status will come into force following signature of the related Agreement by the two parties and notification to CERN of ratification by the Serbian Parliament. This development was warmly received by all delegations in Council.

c9c55223a24338391b05e0fa1fba2fd9 Interactions.org News Wire 2011-12-15T06:00:00

Geneva, 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.

f5d447f26962db605e8441317a7fc507 Interactions.org News Wire 2011-12-13T06:00:00

13 December 2011. In a seminar held at CERN[1] today, the ATLAS[2] and CMS[3] experiments presented the status of their searches for the Standard Model Higgs boson. Their results are based on the analysis of considerably more data than those presented at the summer conferences, sufficient to make significant progress in the search for the Higgs boson, but not enough to make any conclusive statement on the existence or non-existence of the elusive Higgs. The main conclusion is that the Standard Model Higgs boson, if it exists, is most likely to have a mass constrained to the range 116-130 GeV by the ATLAS experiment, and 115-127 GeV by CMS. Tantalising hints have been seen by both experiments in this mass region, but these are not yet strong enough to claim a discovery.

86e3dea3e17ba908a8f3fb8599ca287f PHYSorg.com: Feature story 2011-12-09T14:50:01

(PhysOrg.com) -- The primary objective of NASA’s Kepler satellite, which was launched in March 2009 to orbit the Sun, is to search for Earth-like planets in a portion of the Milky Way galaxy. But now a team of physicists has proposed that Kepler could have a second appealing purpose: to either detect or rule out primordial black holes (PBHs) of a certain mass range as the primary constituent of dark matter.

0943ed2404b5957989029e0fe49dc2e8 PHYSorg.com: Feature story 2011-12-08T14:00:01

(PhysOrg.com) -- What does a proton look like? The common answer to this question is that protons are much too small to scatter light, and since light is necessary for us to see things, protons do not “look” like anything. But in a new study, physicists have gathered sufficient evidence to show that, at least at very high energies, the proton is a black disk – sort of an elongated hockey puck. This description fits only for protons at such ultrahigh energies that even the most advanced experiments will probably never be able to detect them.

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