Cosmology looks beyond the standard model
What are the mysterious dark matter and dark energy that seem to account for so much of our Universe? Why is the Universe expanding? For the past 30 years, most cosmologists have looked to the...
View ArticleMajor US atom-smasher closes after 25 years (Update)
A powerful US atom-smasher that was the world's biggest particle collider for nearly a quarter-century closed forever on Friday, solidifying Europe's place as the world leader in physics.
View ArticleMeasuring elusive neutrinos flowing through the Earth, physicists learn more...
Using one of the most sensitive neutrino detectors on the planet, an international team including physicists Laura Cadonati and Andrea Pocar at the University of Massachusetts Amherst are now measuring...
View ArticleRepulsive gravity as an alternative to dark energy (Part 2: In the quantum...
(PhysOrg.com) -- During the past few years, CERN physicist Dragan Hajdukovic has been investigating what he thinks may be a widely overlooked part of the cosmos: the quantum vacuum. He suggests that...
View ArticleBorexino Collaboration succeeds in spotting pep neutrinos emitted from the sun
(PhysOrg.com) -- To learn more about how the sun works, scientists study particles that are emitted from it into space due to thermonuclear reactions that occur inside; by applying known physics...
View ArticleBudget cuts portend new direction for Fermilab's Long-Baseline Neutrino...
(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists working at Fermilab, the premier particle physics lab in the United States, have been asked to rework their plans for the Long-Baseline Neutrino Experiment (LBNE) in light...
View ArticleSouth Pole Telescope hones in on dark energy, neutrinos
Analysis of data from the 10-meter South Pole Telescope is providing new support for the most widely accepted explanation of dark energy the source of the mysterious force that is responsible for the...
View ArticleWhere do the highest-energy cosmic rays come from? Not from gamma-ray bursts,...
The IceCube neutrino telescope encompasses a cubic kilometer of clear Antarctic ice under the South Pole, a volume seeded with an array of 5,160 sensitive digital optical modules (DOMs) that precisely...
View ArticleMINOS experiment announces world's best measurement of key property of neutrinos
(Phys.org) -- Scientists from the MINOS experiment at the Department of Energys Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory have revealed the worlds most precise measurement of a key parameter that governs...
View ArticleResearchers at IceCube detect record energy neutrinos
(Phys.org) —Researchers at the Antarctic research station IceCube are reporting that they've detected the highest ever energy neutrinos ever observed. In their paper they've uploaded to the preprint...
View ArticleIceCube Neutrino Observatory reports first evidence for extraterrestrial...
(Phys.org) —A massive telescope in the Antarctic ice reports the detection of 28 extremely high-energy neutrinos that might have their origin in cosmic sources. Two of these reached energies greater...
View ArticleNew results from Daya Bay neutrino experiment announced
The international Daya Bay Collaboration has announced new results about the transformations of neutrinos - elusive, ghostlike particles that carry invaluable clues about the makeup of the early...
View ArticleCosmic ray finding: Researchers take a step closer to finding cosmic ray origins
(Phys.org) —The origin of cosmic rays in the universe has confounded scientists for decades. But a study by researchers using data from the IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole reveals new...
View ArticleWorld's largest particle detector IceCube detects first high-energy neutrinos...
The IceCube Neutrino Observatory, a particle detector buried in the Antarctic ice, is a demonstration of the power of the human passion for discovery, where scientific ingenuity meets technological...
View ArticleWhat lies beneath: IT is helping uncover neutrinos under the Antarctic ice
(Phys.org) —A mile beneath Antarctica's surface, thousands of spherical digital sensors are suspended in the ice. It would seem they have nothing to record. At that depth, the ice appears pitch black....
View ArticleBest of Last Week - Zero friction quantum engine, twisted radio beams and...
(Phys.org) —It was another interesting week as a team of physicists from the U.S., Italy and the U.K. designed a zero-friction quantum engine, showing an example of a quantum engine that if built would...
View ArticleFermilab's 500-mile neutrino experiment up and running
(Phys.org) —It's the most powerful accelerator-based neutrino experiment ever built in the United States, and the longest-distance one in the world. It's called NOvA, and after nearly five years of...
View ArticleX-ray telescopes find black hole may be a neutrino factory
(Phys.org) —The giant black hole at the center of the Milky Way may be producing mysterious particles called neutrinos. If confirmed, this would be the first time that scientists have traced neutrinos...
View ArticleTelescopes hint at neutrino beacon at the heart of the Milky Way
(Phys.org) —Identifying the sources of high-energy neutrinos—ghostly but potentially information-rich particles believed to be generated by some of the most violent objects in the sky—is near the top...
View ArticleFinding faster-than-light particles by weighing them
In a new paper accepted by the journal Astroparticle Physics, Robert Ehrlich, a recently retired physicist from George Mason University, claims that the neutrino is very likely a tachyon or...
View ArticleDetector at the South Pole explores the mysterious neutrinos
Neutrinos are a type of particle that pass through just about everything in their path from even the most distant regions of the universe. The Earth is constantly bombarded by billions of neutrinos,...
View ArticleApparatus measures single electron's radiation to try to weigh a neutrino
University of Washington physicists are part of a team that made a step forward in their efforts to pin down the mass of a neutrino, an elusive subatomic particle that played a role in the formation of...
View ArticleNew data from Antarctic detector firms up cosmic neutrino sighting
Researchers using the IceCube Neutrino Observatory have sorted through the billions of subatomic particles that zip through its frozen cubic-kilometer-sized detector each year to gather powerful new...
View ArticleScientists give 'outlaw' particles less room to hide
Studying the highest-energy particles in the cosmos provides scientists with a way to test how well they understand the cutting edge of physics. Recently, scientists using a giant particle detector at...
View ArticleShooting the moon—the search for ultra high energy neutrinos
In 1991 physicists first detected a cosmic ray – a high-energy particle from space – with an energy beyond anything they'd dreamed of. They called it the Oh-My-God particle.
View ArticleNew clues in the hunt for the sources of cosmic neutrinos
The sources of the high-energy cosmic neutrinos that are detected by the IceCube Neutrino Observatory buried in the Antarctic ice may be hidden from observations of high-energy gamma rays, new research...
View ArticleNOvA shines new light on how neutrinos behave
Scientists from the NOvA collaboration have announced an exciting new result that could improve our understanding of the behavior of neutrinos.
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