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Challenging the neutrino signal anomaly
A gentle reminder before we begin: you’re allowed to be interested in particle physics. đŸ˜‰ Neutrinos are among the most mysterious particles in physics. They are extremely light, electrically neutral, and interact so weakly with matter that trillions of them … Continue reading
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Tagged Booster Neutrino Beamline, cosmic rays, Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment, Fermilab, MicroBooNE, MiniBooNE, muons, neutrino oscillation, neutrinos, particle physics, SN 1987A, Standard Model, time projection chamber
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A new source of cosmic rays?
The International Space Station carries a suite of instruments conducting scientific experiments and measurements in low-Earth orbit. One of them is the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS), which studies antimatter particles in cosmic rays to understand how the universe has evolved … Continue reading
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Tagged Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, cosmic rays, deuterons, helium 4, helium-3, International Space Station, magnetic field, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, rigidity, statistical significance
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The search for a powerful natural particle accelerator
And the promise of one distant supernova remnant. Continue reading
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Tagged cosmic ray knee, cosmic rays, Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, gamma rays, inverse Compton scattering, neutral pions, OMG particle, PeVatron, shockfront mechanism, supernova remnants, Swordy plot
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O Voyager, where art thou?
On September 5, 1977, NASA launched the Voyager 1 space probe to study the Jovian planets Jupiter and Saturn, and their moons, and the interstellar medium, the gigantic chasm between various star-systems in the universe. It’s been 35 years and 9 months, … Continue reading
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Tagged cosmic rays, heliosheath, heliosphere, Low-Energy Charged Particle experiment, Milky Way, Solar System, Stamatios Krimigis, Voyager 1
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On September 5, 1977, NASA launched the Voyager 1 space probe to study the Jovian planets Jupiter and Saturn, and their moons, and the interstellar medium, the gigantic chasm between various star-systems in the universe. It’s been 35 years and … Continue reading
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Tagged astrophysics, cosmic rays, interstellar medium, Milky Way Galaxy, Solar System, Voyager 1
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