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US experiments find hint of a break in the laws of physics
At 9 pm India time on April 7, physicists at an American research facility delivered a shot in the arm to efforts to find flaws in a powerful theory that explains how the building blocks of the universe work. Physicists … Continue reading
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Tagged anomalous magnetic dipole moment, dark energy, dark matter, Fermilab Muon g-2, g-2 anomaly, Higgs boson, Large Hadron Collider, LHCb, muon dipole moment, Muon g-2, neutrino masses, New Physics, particle physics, physics beyond the standard model, Standard Model, Standard Model of particle physics, supersymmetry
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The Large Hadron Collider is back online, ready to shift from the “what” of reality to “why”
The world’s single largest science experiment will restart on March 23 after a two-year break. Scientists and administrators at the European Organization for Nuclear Research – known by its French acronym CERN – have announced the status of the agency’s upgrades on its Large … Continue reading
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Tagged accelerator complex, antimatter, CERN, dark matter, extra dimensions, Francois Englert, Higgs boson, high-energy physics, Large Hadron Collider, magnetic quenching, particle accelerators, particle physics, supersymmetry
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HESS telescopes discover new source of gamma rays called a superbubble
Astronomers using the HESS telescopes have discovered a new source of high-energy gamma rays. Dubbed a superbubble, it appears to be a massive shell of gas and dust 270 light-years in diameter being blown outward by the radiation from multiple … Continue reading
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Tagged 30 Dor C, Cherenkov radiation, Cherenkov Telescope Array, Crab Nebula, dark matter, Fermi telescope, gamma rays, High Energy Stereoscopic System, Large Magellanic Cloud, pulsar wind nebulae, superbubbles, supernova remnants, Tarantula Nebula
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Possible first signal of dark matter detected
Dark matter is thought to make up more than 80% of the matter in our universe. However, it is relatively difficult to detect for various reasons. The two most important are because Scientists don’t know what the constituent particles of dark … Continue reading
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Tagged Astro-H telescope, Chandra X-ray observatory, dark matter, dark matter decay, emission spectra, Perseus cluster, sterile neutrinos, XMM-Newton
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A new LHC: 10 things to look out for
Through an extraordinary routine, the most powerful machine built by humankind is slowly but surely gearing up for its relaunch in March 2015. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), straddling the national borders of France and Switzerland, will reawaken after two years … Continue reading
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Tagged B0 mesons, collision energy, dark energy, dark matter, extra dimensions, Higgs boson, instantaneous luminosity, Large Hadron Collider, supersymmetry, weakly interacting massive particles
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The hunt for supersymmetry: Reviewing the first run
What do dark matter, Higgs bosons, the electron dipole moment, topological superconductors and quantum loops have in common? These are exotic entities that scientists have been using to solve some longstanding problems in fundamental physics. Specifically, by studying these entities, they expect … Continue reading
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Tagged dark matter, electron dipole moment, Higgs boson, Large Hadron Collider, quantum loop, Standard Model, supersymmetry, topological superconductor
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The hunt for supersymmetry: Is a choke on the cards?
As scientists have progressed by leaps and bounds in making discoveries and confirming new ideas, they have been disappointed by how one of their favorite theories has been unable to post a positive status update in… years. Continue reading
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Tagged Advanced Cold Molecule Electron, bosons, dark matter, electron dipole moment, fermions, Higgs boson, Large Hadron Collider, mesons, particle physics, Project X, Standard Model, Steven Weinberg, superspace, supersymmetry
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Why do we need dark matter?
The first thing that goes wrong whenever a new discovery is reported, an old one is invalidated, or some vaguely important scientific result is announced has often to do with misrepresentation in the mainstream media. Right now, we’re in the … Continue reading
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Tagged AMS, CoGeNT, dark matter, Fermi-LAT, gravitational lensing, gravity, LUX, velocity dispersion, XENON100
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EUCLID/ESA: A cosmic vision looking into the darkness
I spoke to Dr. Giuseppe Racca and Dr. Rene Laureijs, both of the ESA, regarding the EUCLID mission, which will be the world’s first space-telescope launched to study dark energy and dark matter. For the ESA, EUCLID will be the … Continue reading
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Tagged astrophysics, dark energy, dark matter, European Space Agency, Lagrange point
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What’s allowed and disallowed in the name of SUSY
The International Conference on High Energy Physics (ICHEP) is due to begin on July 7 in Melbourne. This is the 26th episode of the most prestigious scientific conference on particle physics. In keeping with its stature, scientists from the ATLAS … Continue reading
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Tagged bosinos, dark matter, electroweak symmetry breaking, Hideki Yukawa, hierarchy problem, Higgs field, ICHEP, Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model, Quantum mechanics, sfermions, superpartner, supersymmetry, Yukawa coupling
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