• Interactions.org Newsdigest 28 April 2009

    Updated: 2012-08-31 21:47:43
    -- 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

  • Today on New Scientist: 31 August 2012

    Updated: 2012-08-31 18:00:00
    : : 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 Look for Science Jobs SPACE TECH ENVIRONMENT HEALTH LIFE PHYSICS MATH SCIENCE IN SOCIETY Cookies Privacy Today on New Scientist : 31 August 2012 18:00 31 August 2012 Today on New Scientist Full text RSS You can now subscribe to the full text of Today on New . Scientist Twin craft head for heart of Earth's magnetic storm Dancing off the pre-dawn haze , eerie spotlights announced the launch of the first spacecraft to measure the bands of charged particles that encircle Earth Unsure robots make better teachers

  • Newswire: John Adams Institute for Accelerator Science - John Adams Institute is expanding

    Updated: 2012-08-31 05:00:00
    The John Adams Institute for Accelerator Science is expanding, with a new research base at Imperial College London joining two existing centres at Royal Holloway, University of London and the University of Oxford. The John Adams Institute for Accelerator Science is a centre of excellence in the UK for advanced and novel accelerator technology, providing expertise, research, development and training in accelerator techniques, and promoting advanced accelerator applications in science and society. The JAI was created in October 2004 initially as a joint venture between the Departments of Physics in the University of Oxford and Royal Holloway, University of London, and is operating with enabling support by the Science and Technology Facility Council (STFC).

  • Week 34 at the Pole

    Updated: 2012-08-29 06:00:00
    It’s not just ice and starry skies. There are people down there, and look what they’re up to—a regular old county fair, pie eating contest and all. They also share power plant watch duties—the photos below show the way there and the generators found inside. It all seems relatively ordinary, until you go back outside and take in glorious scenes like these.

  • Neil Armstrong

    Updated: 2012-08-25 21:38:40
    Has died at age 82. Perhaps to honor his memory we can resolve as a society to continue to do inspiring things.

  • Week 33 at the Pole

    Updated: 2012-08-23 06:00:00
    IceCube winterovers were busy this week with various sessions for emergency response team training—fire, trauma, and technical rescue. The night sky was busy, too, filling itself up with stars. Here they are over several views of the South Pole station. The bottom photo shows the starry sky above the turn off point to the IceCube Lab on the Dark Sector road.

  • A Few Powers of Ten

    Updated: 2012-08-22 17:10:42
    Via the endlessly enjoyable It’s Okay to Be Smart, here’s a gif image that zooms in by about three orders of magnitude. (Not sure of the original source.) We start by looking at an amphipod, a tiny shrimplike critter about a millimeter across. For some reason (vanity?) it’s decorated by an even tinier diatom, a [...]

  • Gravitational Waves in Five Years

    Updated: 2012-08-20 21:15:24
    LIGO, the gravitational-wave observatory, is currently on ice. After running successfully (although without actually detecting any gravitational waves) through 2007, it got a mini-upgrade and ran as Enhanced LIGO in 2009 and 2010. But in October 2010 it shut off, and the original detectors were disassembled. Not because anything was wrong, but because of a [...]

  • The Plot Of The Week - Z' Not Here

    Updated: 2012-08-20 11:46:38
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  • The Invader

    Updated: 2012-08-19 22:53:31
    Opening panels of a wordless and moving story about a young Space Invader. Worth a click. Via Zack Stentz.

  • Week 32 at the Pole

    Updated: 2012-08-15 06:00:00
    It was an uneventful week for the winterovers, but not for the moon. Here’s a bright moon if you’ve ever seen one. And out in the open, as opposed to the images below. First up is a peekaboo moon behind the South Pole Telescope. You can even see a smattering of stars. Then there is a mostly hidden moon, backlighting the TDRS (Tracking and Data Relay Satellite) antenna, first with the beacon on and then with the beacon off.

  • ICARUS: Neutrinos Travel At Light Speed. Period.

    Updated: 2012-08-14 18:06:12
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  • Newswire: BNL - Closing in on the Border Between Primordial Plasma and Ordinary Matter

    Updated: 2012-08-13 05:00:00
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  • Newswire: CERN - LHC experiments bring new insight into matter of the primordial Universe

    Updated: 2012-08-13 05:00:00
    Geneva, 13 August 2012. Experiments using heavy ions at CERN1's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) are advancing understanding of the primordial Universe. The ALICE, ATLAS and CMS collaborations have made new measurements of the kind of matter that probably existed in the first instants of the Universe. They will present their latest results at the 2012 Quark Matter conference, which starts today in Washington DC. The new findings are based mainly on the four-week LHC run with lead ions in 2011, during which the experiments collected 20 times more data than in 2010.

  • MACHOs, WIMPs and the mystery of the missing mass - Comment by Elvandil

    Updated: 2012-08-11 17:38:09
    The one thing you forgot to mention, the most important thing as far as I'm concerned, is the possibility that dark matter does not exist at all. It could be nothing but a by-product of our means of detecting it. Remember that the only reason we have right now to believe that it exists at all is gravitational lensing. If gravity has some secrets we don't yet know, such as repulsion at long dist. . .

  • Week 31 at the Pole

    Updated: 2012-08-08 06:00:00
    Cold, windy, with the moon back up. We have two photos of balloon launches this week. Above we see a NOAA ozone balloon about to go up. Below is the daily weather balloon before its launch. Missing are images of “Super hero bingo night.” The fun never stops down there.

  • Newswire: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory - The First Public Data Release from BOSS, the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey

    Updated: 2012-08-08 05:00:00
    Led by Berkeley Lab scientists, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey's BOSS is bigger than all other spectroscopic surveys combined for measuring the universe’s large-scale structure The Third Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-III) has issued Data Release 9 (DR9), the first public release of data from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS). In this release BOSS, the largest of SDSS-III's four surveys, provides spectra for 535,995 newly observed galaxies, 102,100 quasars, and 116,474 stars, plus new information about objects in previous Sloan surveys (SDSS-I and II).

  • Higgs Papers Out

    Updated: 2012-08-03 19:44:35
    We were all transfixed by the Higgs seminars on July 4, but the work was nowhere near over for the experimentalists — they had to actually write up papers describing the results. And of course taking the opportunity to do a little more analysis along the way. Now the papers have appeared on the arxiv. [...]

  • Newswire: Pier Oddone to Step Down as Fermilab Director

    Updated: 2012-08-02 15:00:00
    The Fermi Research Alliance (FRA) Board of Directors, which manages and operates Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, announced today that Fermilab Director Pier Oddone has decided to retire after eight years at the helm of America's leading particle physics laboratory. Oddone will continue to serve as Fermilab director until July 1, 2013, while a committee appointed by the FRA Board Chairman conducts an international search for his successor.

  • Week 30 at the Pole

    Updated: 2012-08-02 06:00:00
    What is it? It looks cozy, like when kids throw a sheet over some chairs for a make-believe fort. But this one is definitely not for make-believe. It’s an inside view of a Scott tent set up at the South Pole – actually used (as in slept in overnight) by winterovers as part of their survival skills practice. And here’s the view from outside the tent.

  • Newswire: DESY - A century of discoveries - Physicists celebrate centenary of the discovery of cosmic rays

    Updated: 2012-07-31 05:00:00
    Anniversary conference looks at future experiments A constant shower of subatomic particles rains down from space. A hundred years ago, this "cosmic radiation" was discovered by the Austrian physicist Victor Franz Hess. Among other things, the discovery laid the foundation for a whole new field of research: high energy physics - which recently gave us, for instance, the first experimental evidence for the Higgs boson. An anniversary conference looks at the past milestones of cosmic ray research and at future experiments.

  • Quantum Diaries

    Updated: 2012-07-26 19:33:09
    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 2012.08.30 What Goes on My Research Page 2012.08.26 Testing theory 2012.08.16 How a calorimeter works part 3 Frank Simon MPI for Physics Germany View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.07.04 Plus Two 2011.12.14 After the talk is before the talk 2011.10.24 Breathe Flip Tanedo USLHC USA View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.07.19 The Post-Higgs Hangover : where’s the new physics 2012.07.06 More Post-Higgs

  • Newswire: CERN - AMS experiment marks one year in space

    Updated: 2012-07-25 05:00:00
    Geneva, 25 July 2012. CERN1 today marked the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer's first year in space with a visit from the crew of the shuttle mission, STS-134, that successfully delivered AMS to the International Space Station just over a year ago. Launched on 16 May last year, the detector was already sending data back to Earth by 19 May, and since then, some 17 billion cosmic ray events have been collected. Data are received by NASA in Houston, and then relayed to the AMS Payload Operations Control Centre (POCC) at CERN for analysis. A second POCC has recently been inaugurated in Taipei.

  • Week 29 at the Pole

    Updated: 2012-07-24 06:00:00
    Cold goes to colder, as they reached their lowest temperature yet at the South Pole this winter, going down to -76 °C, or -104.8 °F. Uneventful in terms of extracurricular activities, but captivating as far as auroras go. Lots of them to admire and to muse upon, like the question mark looming large over the IceCube Lab.

  • Dark Matter Still Hiding

    Updated: 2012-07-20 18:07:47
    After a few provocative hints over the last few years, new results in the search for weakly-interacting dark matter have come up empty. The latest is from XENON100, a liquid-xenon scintillation detector under the mountain in Gran Sasso, Italy. Here are the talk slides by Elena Aprile (pdf) from the Dark Attack conference in Switzerland [...]

  • Newswire: BNL - Hot Nuclear Matter Featured in Science

    Updated: 2012-07-19 05:00:00
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  • Week 28 at the Pole

    Updated: 2012-07-18 06:00:00
    The US flag flaps in the wind, as it undoubtedly did in many places across the US on July 4th, only at the South Pole it was lit by a bright moon with a lunar halo. Although there, too, they had a BBQ to celebrate festivities on the 4th, it wasn’t on an outdoor grill. Why not? (whisper…It’s cold down there!) However, the cold temperatures—well, at -42 °C, warm by their standards—didn’t stop IceCube winterover Carlos Pobes from completing a half marathon outside.

  • Newswire: SLAC - National Science Foundation Will Advance the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope

    Updated: 2012-07-18 05:00:00
    With approval from the National Science Board, the National Science Foundation (NSF) Director will advance the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) to the final design stage. This action permits the NSF Director to include funds for LSST construction in a future budget request. To be located in Chile, the LSST is a proposed 8-meter wide-field survey telescope that will survey the entire sky approximately twice per week, delivering a large and comprehensive data set that will transform astronomical research.

  • Newswire: INFN Gran Sasso Laboratory - XENON100 sets record limits for dark matter

    Updated: 2012-07-18 05:00:00
    Scientists from the XENON collaboration announced a new result from their search for dark matter. The analysis of data taken with the XENON100 detector during 13 months of operation at the Gran Sasso Laboratory (Italy) provided no evidence for the existence of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs), the leading dark matter candidates. Two events being observed are statistically consistent with one expected event from background radiation. Compared to their previous 2011 result the world-leading sensitivity has again been improved by a factor of 3.5. This constrains models of new physics with WIMP candidates even further and it helps to target future WIMP searches. A paper with the results is going to be submitted to Physical Review Letters and on the arXiv.

  • Time the Destroyer

    Updated: 2012-07-17 18:37:53
    Andy Albrecht of UC Davis gave an entertaining TEDx talk on entropy — or as he calls it, “destruction” — and the arrow of time. I especially like how he is willing to look clumsy in the cause of greater pedagogy!

  • Quantum Diaries

    Updated: 2012-07-16 18:32:39
    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 2012.08.30 What Goes on My Research Page 2012.08.26 Testing theory 2012.08.16 How a calorimeter works part 3 Frank Simon MPI for Physics Germany View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.07.04 Plus Two 2011.12.14 After the talk is before the talk 2011.10.24 Breathe Flip Tanedo USLHC USA View Blog Read Bio Latest Posts 2012.07.19 The Post-Higgs Hangover : where’s the new physics 2012.07.06 More Post-Higgs

  • Higgs the Cat on Higgs the Particle

    Updated: 2012-07-15 23:11:44
    Higgs the cat, owner of friend and guest author of the blog Faye Flam, has written his own take on the Higgs boson as a contribution to Faye’s Planet of the Apes blog. Faye will shamelessly plagiarize Higgs in Monday’s Philadelphia Inquirer, but you can read it straight from the kitty’s mouth at the above [...]

  • Grad students win in Erice, Italy

    Updated: 2012-07-12 06:00:00
    At this year’s 18th International School of Cosmic Ray Astrophysics in Erice, Italy, IceCube graduate students Anne Schukraft, RWTH Aachen University, and Marcos Santander, University of Wisconsin-Madison, were recognized for their analysis and presentations.

  • Week 27 at the Pole

    Updated: 2012-07-12 06:00:00
    A quiet week at the Pole. Still, there’s always maintenance to be done, like status checks of the emergency fuel tanks (below, top) and a monthly fire alarm test at the IceCube Lab (below, bottom). Quiet, yes, but bright—perfect conditions for a walk.

  • NEUTRINO2012 in Kyoto

    Updated: 2012-07-10 00:11:00
    : 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 10 July 2012 NEUTRINO2012 in Kyoto Post by Yoshi Uchida For the last week or so the Higgs has been hitting the headlines , but it's also been an amazing year in the world of neutrinos , and last month , a group of us from Imperial attended the Neutrino 2012 conference in Kyoto which is where the whole community comes together to report and discuss our work , and think about the future . This was the 25th in the Neutrino series of conferences , which are held every other year and are the biggest and most prestigious in the field of

  • Week 26 at the Pole

    Updated: 2012-07-05 06:00:00
    The official midwinter date is a big event in Antarctica. The various stations throughout the continent celebrate and exchange special greeting cards, as shown posted on a wall at the Amundsen-Scott station where the IceCube winterovers are located. There they had dining, dancing and a movie (the traditional viewing of “The Shining”) to cap off their weekend celebration. And auroras, of course.

  • Massive discovery

    Updated: 2012-07-04 22:55:00
    Thanks to years of effort by people on CMS, ATLAS and the LHC, a Higgs-like particle has been found at CERN. That is the last missing part of the Standard Model. As the head of CERN said, next on the list for physicists is the "dark" Universe. Exciting times. - taken from Astronomy Blog (www.strudel.org.uk/blog/astro/)

  • Newswire: CERN experiments observe particle consistent with long-sought Higgs boson

    Updated: 2012-07-04 08:10:00
    Geneva, 4 July 2012. At a seminar held at CERN today as a curtain raiser to the year's major particle physics conference, ICHEP2012 in Melbourne, the ATLAS and CMS experiments presented their latest preliminary results in the search for the long sought Higgs particle. Both experiments observe a new particle in the mass region around 125-126 GeV.

  • Newswire: BNL - Brookhaven Lab Collider Crucial to Future of Nuclear Physics

    Updated: 2012-07-03 05:00:00
    National Research Council report details breakthroughs at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider and its key role in the field over the next decade UPTON, NY - In a new report on the current status and future of nuclear physics, the National Research Council (NRC) highlights the "spectacular" performance and critical future role of the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory.

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