• She is the Henry W. Newson Distinguished Professor of Physics at Duke University, and associate laboratory director for nuclear and particle physics at the Brookhaven National Laboratory. (wikipedia.org)
  • She became associate laboratory director for nuclear and particle physics at the Brookhaven National Laboratory in 2021, while continuing to keep her position at Duke. (wikipedia.org)
  • At the end of the interview, Feldman points to Japan and China where some of the most interesting high energy physics is happening, and he notes the value that particle physics is contributing to deep learning and artificial neural nets. (aip.org)
  • I have a background in particle physics. (911blogger.com)
  • Particle accelerators are essential tools in research areas such as biology, materials science and particle physics. (fau.eu)
  • If this is so, then the masking effect, and in turn the warming effects of carbon dioxide, might have been overestimated, says Jasper Kirkby, a physicist at the CERN, Europe's particle-physics laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland, who led one of the experiments. (bioedonline.org)
  • Unfortunately, most articles about the topic just repeat the press-release, and do not explain how much the situation in particle physics has changed with the LHC data. (blogspot.com)
  • But now, with the Higgs-boson found in 2012, their theory - the "standard model of particle physics" - is complete. (blogspot.com)
  • This situation is unprecedented in particle physics. (blogspot.com)
  • the "standard model of particle physics" - is complete. (blogspot.com)
  • And yet, according to the reigning theory of particle physics, the proton should interact with the muon and the electron in exactly the same way. (nautil.us)
  • Ever since the establishment of the Standard Model of particle physics in 1970s, the idea of going after theory of everything has become popular as the latest approach of first principles among theoretical physicists for unifying all particles and interactions. (wanpengtan.com)
  • Ben Nachman, a Berkeley Lab physicist who is involved with particle physics experiments at CERN as a member of Berkeley Lab's ATLAS group, saw the quantum-computing connection while working on a particle physics calculation with Christian Bauer, a Berkeley Lab theoretical physicist who is a co-author of the study. (scitechdaily.com)
  • A world-class specialist V. D. Kekelidze began his career as an experimental physicist in the field of elementary particle physics at JINR more than 50 years ago. (jinr.ru)
  • This will provide JINR with a leading position in solving the fundamental problems of modern particle physics for a long time. (jinr.ru)
  • This theorized but never-before-observed process, called "neutrinoless double-beta decay," would rock the world of particle physics. (phys.org)
  • The confirmation of such a neutrinoless decay would be historic, requiring updates to the Standard Model of Particle Physics. (phys.org)
  • Fermi, who won the Nobel Prize in 1938, also worked in quantum mechanics and particle physics, making him an ideal candidate for an elementary name. (nails-beauty.de)
  • At the beginning of the 20th century, physicists were aware of a pervasive shower of particles that seemed to rain down from space. (symmetrymagazine.org)
  • Although scientists hadn't realized muons would be on the menu, the discovery of muons eventually led to a discovery about how that menu was set up: Particles can come in different versions, each alike in charge, spin and interactions but different in mass. (symmetrymagazine.org)
  • Physicists built on this principle to predict the existence of generations of other particles, such as neutrinos, which with electrons, muons and taus round out the set of particles called leptons. (symmetrymagazine.org)
  • Two international experiments, one currently underway and the other slated to begin in the early 2020s, are using the previously perplexing particles to push the boundaries of physics. (symmetrymagazine.org)
  • But then physicists discovered that the group of (uncharged lepton) particles called neutrinos are unaware they are expected to follow the rules. (symmetrymagazine.org)
  • This phenomenon, which won researchers Takaaki Kajita and Arthur B. McDonald the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2015, left scientists with a question: If neutrinos could violate flavor conservation, could other particles do it, too? (symmetrymagazine.org)
  • A fundamental law of physics means that focusing charged particles in all three dimensions at once - width, height and depth - is impossible. (fau.eu)
  • Fact is, particle physicists have predicted dark matter particles since the mid-1980s. (blogspot.com)
  • But the quantum field theory, another leading theory of the 20th century that faithfully describes the world of particles and the infinitely small, would seem to be irreconcilable with general relativity. (oca.eu)
  • That could have a surprising benefit for other physics experiments, which have detectors that look for radiation caused by dark matter particles or neutrinos. (newscientist.com)
  • Yet sourcing materials with very low levels of natural radiation is essential for certain types of sensitive instruments and detectors, like those searching for evidence of currently undetected particles that many physicists believe actually comprise most of the universe. (newswise.com)
  • Interactions between electrons, which behave as almost free particles in normal metals, are a key factor in superconductivity, and these electron-electron interactions or correlations are directly encoded in photoemission spectra. (ucsc.edu)
  • The Colorado State University professor of physics studies the fundamental matter particles known as neutrinos, and an exceedingly rare instance of radioactive decay in which neutrinos-otherwise present in such decays-are nowhere to be found. (phys.org)
  • First, the thing that sort-of worked: in thinking about trying to use the code I wrote, I was struggling to come up with a way to quantify the apparent irreversibility of the evolution of my toy system for larger numbers of "particles" in a relatively non-technical way that might be comprehensible for non-physicists. (scienceblogs.com)
  • The collaboration saw students and physicists from Lund University, Sweden, Keele University, UK, and the Physics Division at the ORNL. (lu.se)
  • In 1991, V. D. Kekelidze led a group of JINR physicists to prepare the NA48 experiment at the SPS accelerator at CERN . (jinr.ru)
  • Awarding the 2021 Nobel Prize for physics to two climatologists, Klaus Hasselmann and Syukuro Manabe, and a physicist, Giorgio Parisi, sent an important message to all those concerned about the overall complex system in which we live. (nature.com)
  • From Sci-News.com, March 19, 2021: Physicists from the TOTEM (TOTal cross section, Elastic scattering and diffraction dissociation Measurement) Collaboration at CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and the DØ Collaboration at Fermilab have found strong new evidence for the odderon, an elusive three-gluon state predicted almost five decades ago. (nails-beauty.de)
  • Feldman describes the opportunities that led to his graduate work at Harvard to work with Frank Pipkin on electro production pion experiments. (aip.org)
  • Some of the radiation can be stopped by using a lead or concrete shield around the computer or placing it underground like physicists do with other experiments that are sensitive to cosmic rays. (newscientist.com)
  • It's amazing to think of how sensitive these experiments are," said John Gillaspy, a physicist at the National Science Foundation. (phys.org)
  • That is, while plenty of individual LHC physics analyses have considered private plots of a generator's predictions, there has not been a study broad enough to provide side-by-side displays of how different simulation codes perform, both with respect to each other and to data from previous experiments. (lu.se)
  • and ensuring that the event records produced by them can be manipulated to provide data which may be compared to that from existing experiments is a task ill-suited to experimental physicists under pressure to produce plots for one specific process. (lu.se)
  • That's been largely driven by the Senegalese Association for the Promotion of Astronomy , led by Maram Kaire. (lifeboat.com)
  • Borrowing a page from high-energy physics and astronomy textbooks, a team of physicists and computer scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has successfully adapted and applied a common error-reduction technique to the field of quantum computing . (scitechdaily.com)
  • The disciplines of Physics and Astronomy use either APA (American Psychological Association) Style or MLA (Modern Language Association) Style. (physics-network.org)
  • Several successful exploratory missions in gamma-ray astronomy led to the Energetic Gamma Ray Experiment Telescope (EGRET) instrument on the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory (CGRO).Daily Data Products. (nails-beauty.de)
  • She became chair of the physics department at Duke in 2011, was named Henry W. Newson Distinguished Professor of Physics in 2012, and served as vice chancellor for academic affairs at Duke Kunshan University from 2015 to 2019. (wikipedia.org)
  • I showed my preliminary calculations to Gweon, who is an expert in this field, and he was very excited," said Shastry, a distinguished professor of physics at UCSC. (ucsc.edu)
  • Her dissertation, Measurement of the neutron magnetic form factor from inclusive quasielastic scattering of polarized electrons from polarized 3HE, was supervised by Robert D. McKeown. (wikipedia.org)
  • Using this method, researchers from the Chair of Laser Physics at FAU have succeeded in guiding electrons through a vacuum channel, an essential component of particle accelerators. (fau.eu)
  • To cope with this incredibly busy, "noisy" environment and intrinsic problems related to the energy resolution and other factors associated with detectors, physicists use error-correcting "unfolding" techniques and other filters to winnow down this particle jumble to the most useful, accurate data. (scitechdaily.com)
  • The copper forms a key component of sensitive physics detectors, including those used for international nuclear treaty verification . (newswise.com)
  • Its focus is rapid publication and dissemination of new experimental and theoretical papers regarding applications of physics in all disciplines of science, engineering, and modern technology. (physics-network.org)
  • In this new field of high energy physics and the dealing with extreme materia that is only existing under extreme circumstances, an independent and multidisciplinary risk assessment and an international, multidisciplinary supervision is urgently needed. (lhc-concern.info)
  • These charts show the connection between sorted high-energy physics measurements related to particle scattering - called differential cross-section measurements (left) - and repeated measurements of outputs from quantum computers (right). (scitechdaily.com)
  • The latest study focuses on a technique to reduce readout errors, called "iterative Bayesian unfolding" (IBU), which is familiar to the high-energy physics community. (scitechdaily.com)
  • During his work at JINR, Vladimir Dimitrievich worked his way up from the Head of Sector to the Director of the largest Laboratory of High Energy Physics JINR , which he has headed for many years and continues to supervise up to the present time. (jinr.ru)
  • And DOE's Office of Science had its requested budget increase cut by two-thirds, with high-energy physics and fusion sciences especially hard hit (1). (aps.org)
  • However, we seem to live in a dynamic world as indicated, e.g., since the discovery of an expanding Universe and it is definitely at odds with the static picture of an ultimate unified theory for physics . (wanpengtan.com)
  • Haiyan Gao (Chinese: 高海燕) is a Chinese-American nuclear physicist whose research concerns the structure of nucleons, quantum chromodynamics, and low-energy fundamental symmetries and symmetry violations, and has included accurate measurements of the size of protons. (wikipedia.org)
  • There is a fundamental problem in physics. (space.com)
  • It is generally anticipated that resolving the issue may lead us to a more fundamental understanding of physics. (space.com)
  • Stanford physicist Giorgio Gratta helps lead a global quest to capture evidence for the fundamental building blocks of the universe. (newswise.com)
  • UNH physicists are engaged in fundamental research in producing nuclear polarization in gases and applying those techniques for medical imaging applications. (unh.edu)
  • Originally these efforts were motivated by applications in fundamental physics. (unh.edu)
  • EPFL researchers have found a way around what was considered a fundamental limitation of physics for over 100 years. (epfl.ch)
  • Tipler is a professor of Mathematical Physics at Tulane University, a theoretical physicist, a quantum cosmologist. (shroudstory.com)
  • The only reliable prediction we currently have for physics beyond the standard model is that we should eventually see effects of quantum gravity. (blogspot.com)
  • A universal theory unifying gravitation and quantum physics is therefore the holy grail of physicists in the 21st century. (oca.eu)
  • This "would, of course, be fantastic," said Randolf Pohl of the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics in Garching, Germany, who led both the 2010 experiment and the new study. (nautil.us)
  • That radiation isn't a problem for quantum computers yet because there are other sources of noise that are more prevalent, they say, but as quantum computers get better over the next decade, it could be a limiting factor. (newscientist.com)
  • This quantum version of the variational principle beautifully applies both geometry and algebra to physics in a united way. (wanpengtan.com)
  • But it does not matter whether you believe (or even understand) my arguments, you only have to look at the data to see that particle physicists' predictions for physics beyond the standard model have, in fact, not worked for more than 30 years. (blogspot.com)
  • As they worked up to studying larger communities, Gore became interested in trying to test some of the predictions that theoretical physicists have made regarding the dynamics of large, complex ecosystems. (mit.edu)
  • After discarding a few alternative theories-including one that posited that this particle might be a new kind of electron-physicists were left with one conclusion: They had discovered a particle that nobody had predicted. (symmetrymagazine.org)
  • Fact is, particle physicists predicted grand unified theories starting also in the 1980s. (blogspot.com)
  • With this method of prediction not working, there is now no reason to think that the LHC in its upcoming runs, or a next larger collider, will see anything besides the physics predicted by the already known theories. (blogspot.com)
  • Physicists have had theories regarding the nuclear reactions within the sun for years, but direct observations have remained elusive," he said. (princeton.edu)
  • The Higgs was the last good prediction that particle physicists had. (blogspot.com)
  • Particle physicists had a good case to build the LHC with the prediction of the Higgs-boson. (blogspot.com)
  • All the series of temperatures have been homogenised to eliminate possible discontinuity points, and highlight any factor that is not meteorological or climatic", the physicists pointed out. (sciencedaily.com)
  • This resource letter intends to provide physics instructors - particularly graduate student teaching assistants - at the introductory university level with a small but representative collection of resources to acquire a familiarity with research in physics education for guidance in everyday instruction. (blogspot.com)
  • I was one of only five students presenting research in physics. (spsnational.org)
  • Feldman discusses his postgraduate research at SLAC where he worked closely with Roy Schwitters in Burt Richter's group measuring the form factors of baryons and pions. (aip.org)
  • lt;p>In this episode, Kristen Nicholson, the director of the Pitching Lab at Wake Forest University tells Chris Gorski about how her interest in math and the way the body moves eventually led to research assisting children with shoulder injuries, accomplished figure skaters and eventually baseball players. (insidescience.org)
  • Strong's research in atmospheric measurements examines such key environmental issues as climate change and its relationship to contributing factors including stratospheric ozone depletion and tropospheric pollution. (utoronto.ca)
  • Unraveling this puzzle is one of the major research areas in modern physics. (space.com)
  • 1 Physical Review Letters, a leading international research publication. (oca.eu)
  • New ion sources were created, a new linear accelerator for heavy ions and a booster synchrotron were commissioned, a number of new facilities, including a heavy ion collider, were created, and an extensive programme of physics research at NICA was developed. (jinr.ru)
  • Brisset, a research associate at the institute who has multiple degrees in mechanical and space engineering as well as physics, will work on the algorithms to run the computer simulations they hope will lead to a viable model. (spacecoastdaily.com)
  • A NIMS-led research group succeeded in developing a high-quality diamond cantilever with among the highest quality (Q) factor values at room temperature ever achieved. (phys.org)
  • Prior to working for SANS, Johannes worked as a lead support engineer for a web development company and as a research physicist. (ren-isac.net)
  • Applied physicists use physics or conduct physics research to develop new technologies or solve engineering problems. (physics-network.org)
  • Physical Review Research is the 207th out of 2,076 Physics journals. (physics-network.org)
  • The interest in providing sufficient funding for young faculty to start their research programs has a simple explanation: those beginning their independent research careers today will make the discoveries of tomorrow and will teach the physics students of tomorrow. (aps.org)
  • The study, which has just been published in Science , was led by Kosmas Tsakmakidis, first at the University of Ottawa and then at EPFL's Bionanophotonic Systems Laboratory run by Hatice Altug, where the researcher is now doing post-doctoral research. (epfl.ch)
  • In the short term, there are some obvious pragmatic social factors that motivate graduate students in scientific research. (bvsalud.org)
  • Frank Kirrane is Principal Medical Physicist and Head of Clinical Engineering at the Department of Medical Physics and Clinical Engineering, Galway University Hospital. (ibec.ie)
  • Several staffing models are used to determine the required medical physics staffing, including radiotherapy technologists, of radiation oncology departments. (bvsalud.org)
  • Therefore, in this study, we surveyed workloads in Japan to estimate the optimal medical physics staffing in external beam radiotherapy. (bvsalud.org)
  • A total of 837 facilities were surveyed to collect information regarding radiotherapy techniques and medical physics specialists (RTMPs). (bvsalud.org)
  • Compared to published models, larger facilities (over 500 annual patients) had a shortage of medical physics staff. (bvsalud.org)
  • In 1953, scientists at the Nobel Institute in Stockholm had produced fermium 250 by bombarding uranium with oxygen nuclei.This distance is sometimes called a fermi and was so named in honour of Italian naturalized to American physicist Enrico Fermi, as it is a typical length-scale of nuclear physics. (nails-beauty.de)
  • All information about nuclear physics laboratories worldwide is on the IUPAP WG9 webpage. (lu.se)
  • There was a suggestion with unanimous consensus that the report should be more broadly publicized by a larger number of sources including IUPAP and perhaps APS division of Nuclear Physics (DNP). (lu.se)
  • In fact, there's such a huge discrepancy between the observed value of this constant and what theory predicts that it is widely considered the worst prediction in the history of physics. (space.com)
  • I am simply saying that we currently have no prediction that indicates a larger collider would lead to a breakthrough. (blogspot.com)
  • Michel Spiro is the new IUPAP President elect and wil lead IUPAP starting in January 2019. (lu.se)
  • Resolving the discrepancy may be the most important goal of theoretical physics this century. (space.com)
  • Lucas Lombriser, an assistant professor of theoretical physics at the University of Geneva in Switzerland, has introduced a new way of evaluating Albert Einstein's equations of gravity to find a value for the cosmological constant that closely matches its observed value. (space.com)
  • Continuous rises in annual temperatures in certain areas lead to "changes in the environment and significant increases in the frequency of values considered extreme temperatures", SINC was told by Emiliano Hernández, Professor of Atmospheric Physics at the UCM and one of the study's authors. (sciencedaily.com)
  • At ATLAS, we often have to 'unfold,' or correct for detector effects," said Nachman, the study's lead author. (scitechdaily.com)
  • These systems are unlike what we have all been accustomed to for decades, and possibly hundreds of years», says Tsakmakidis, the study's lead author. (epfl.ch)
  • FAU physicists control the flow of electron pulses through a nanostructure channel. (fau.eu)
  • Jiliang Hu, an MIT graduate student, is the lead author of the paper. (mit.edu)
  • Recent UNH Physics graduate student Isabel Dregely performed Ph.D. thesis work by collaborating with Xemed and outside academic institutions. (unh.edu)
  • This transcript may not be quoted, reproduced or redistributed in whole or in part by any means except with the written permission of the American Institute of Physics. (aip.org)
  • This transcript is based on a tape-recorded interview deposited at the Center for History of Physics of the American Institute of Physics. (aip.org)
  • This is David Zierler, oral historian for the American Institute of Physics. (aip.org)
  • Scitation hosts journals and conference proceedings from AIP (American Institute of Physics) Publishing and AIP member societies. (physics-network.org)
  • Applied Physics Letters is a weekly peer-reviewed scientific journal that is published by the American Institute of Physics. (physics-network.org)
  • About AIP Publishing AIP Publishing is a wholly owned not-for-profit subsidiary of the American Institute of Physics (AIP). (physics-network.org)
  • Where is the American Institute of Physics? (physics-network.org)
  • She studied physics at Tsinghua University, graduating in 1988, and came to the US for graduate study in physics at the California Institute of Technology, completing her doctorate there in 1994. (wikipedia.org)
  • When you have some kind of an interaction that involves charged leptons, such as nuclear or particle decay or some type of high-energy particle interaction, the number of a given flavor of charged leptons remains the same," says Jim Miller, a professor of physics at Boston University. (symmetrymagazine.org)
  • Kimberly Strong , a physicist who studies the Earth's atmosphere, will lead the University of Toronto's new School of the Environment starting July 1, 2013. (utoronto.ca)
  • The three-day meeting, held in a 19th century building of the German Physical Society , brought together physicists, astronomers, and computer scientists for the purpose of identifying "a common set of needs," says meeting organizer Karl Mannheim, an astrophysicist from the Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg, Germany. (aps.org)
  • Major progress in this important field has now been reported by physicists at the University of California, Santa Cruz, in a pair of papers published back-to-back in the July 29 issue of Physical Review Letters . (ucsc.edu)
  • Colorado State University physics professor Bill Fairbank with his lab's single-atom imaging apparatus. (phys.org)
  • The new memory idea is "thrilling because it's very simple," says Andre Geim , professor of physics at the University of Manchester, UK, who first isolated graphene sheets from graphite. (technologyreview.com)
  • Physicists hope to answer that exact question with Mu2e, an experiment scheduled to start generating data in the next few years at the US Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. (symmetrymagazine.org)
  • Sun-damental In August, working in an isolated laboratory beneath the mountains of Italy, a Princeton team led by physics professor Frank Calaprice gained a clearer understanding of sunshine by making the first real-time detection of low-energy solar neutrinos, according to the National Science Foundation. (princeton.edu)
  • The lead author of this second paper is Gey-Hong Gweon, assistant professor of physics at UC Santa Cruz, with coauthors Shastry and Genda Gu of Brookhaven National Laboratory. (ucsc.edu)
  • it allowed physicists to predict the interactions they would observe in particle accelerators and nuclear reactions. (symmetrymagazine.org)
  • They were also able to strengthen the interactions between species by increasing the amount of food available, which causes populations to grow larger and can also lead to environmental changes such as increased acidification. (mit.edu)
  • I think kids are smarter than "PHD Corporate Scientists" - they play with matches more often :) and have a better understanding of FIRE - its properties, capabilites and the Laws of Physics than NIST, The American Society of Civil Engineers, MIT etc. (911blogger.com)
  • Physicists and engineers had always built resonant systems - like those to produce lasers, make electronic circuits and conduct medical diagnoses - with this constraint in mind. (epfl.ch)
  • A team of physicists led by Prof. Dr. Peter Hommelhoff from the Chair of Laser Physics at FAU has taken a major step forward towards adapting DLA for use in fully-functional accelerators. (fau.eu)
  • The approach of first principles has been pursued in the development and history of physics. (wanpengtan.com)
  • Many variants of the variational principle have been developed in the history of physics and math. (wanpengtan.com)
  • In 1990, V. D. Kekelidze led the EXCHARM international collaboration on the study of strange and charmed particle production processes. (jinr.ru)
  • Dr Aoife Murray and Irial Conroy who will discuss how they led a project to introduce the new ICU FamilyLink video call unit in collaboration with ICU nursing staff and technology partners IBM and Cisco. (ibec.ie)
  • To avoid that storage nightmare, the SKA collaboration plans to reduce the data-through processing-by about a factor of 1000. (aps.org)
  • The Microscope team has already achieved a factor-of-ten improvement in the precision of test measurements after analysing just 10% of the data from the satellite. (oca.eu)
  • One team, composed of Algerian astronomers from the Centre de Recherche en Astrophysique et Géophysique , also attempted to observe the occultation in the south of Algeria. (lifeboat.com)
  • The intricately sculpted device made by Paul Barclay and his team of physicists is so tiny it can only be seen under a microscope. (phys.org)
  • Among other uses, the innovation may allow chemists, led by senior chemist Eric Hoppe and his team at PNNL, to further hone the chemistry that produces the world's purest electroformed copper. (newswise.com)
  • ZapperZ's physics blog on the world of Physics and Physicists. (blogspot.com)
  • Mark, of WeAreChange Boston, recently met with world renowned theoretical physicist and author, Dr. Michio Kaku. (911blogger.com)
  • You would think a world-famous Physicist would just be passionate for Physics - but Feynman was curious about everything he saw. (goodreads.com)
  • UNH presently leads the world by more than a factor of ten in the quality and quantity of hyperpolarized xenon production. (unh.edu)
  • Put another way, it makes no sense for the society to educate young physicists through their undergraduate, graduate and postdoctoral years, offer faculty positions to the best of the best through intense world-wide competitions, and then not give them the wherewithal to initiate their programs. (aps.org)
  • Borschberg concentrated out and Isolated download IT Revolutions: Third International ICST Conference, Córdoba, Spain, March 23 25, 2011, Revised Selected that once is available forest: the First Round-The-World Solar Flight, led highly by the integer, with no eucalypt or existing molecules. (be-mindful.de)
  • We describe a framework for understanding the factors that underpin economic resilience, and identify the basic tools for implementing it. (nature.com)
  • These findings allowed the researchers to create a "phase diagram" for ecosystems, similar to the diagrams physicists use to describe the conditions that control the transition of water from solid to liquid to gas. (mit.edu)
  • While that may seem like a modest difference, the authors note that another factor could draw campaigns to the technology: A rough calculation of the cost of each vote generated suggests that sending text messages is far cheaper than running a traditional phone bank. (princeton.edu)
  • It's hard to pin down when all this started, but the publication of Frank Tipler's The Physics of Christianity seems defining. (shroudstory.com)
  • It's very exciting,' says FAU physicist Johannes Illmer, co-author of the publication. (fau.eu)
  • Nearly a decade later, another physicist, Edwin Hubble , discovered that our universe is not static, but expanding. (space.com)
  • In The Stargate Conspiracy we learn that the CIA and MI5 are actively manipulating a secret cult of powerful and rich leaders, including leading scientists who believe that they are in direct contact with extraterrestrial intelligent beings from the star Sirius. (shroudstory.com)
  • The decrease in days of extreme cold and increase in days of extreme heat are due to both local and global factors, according to the scientists. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Interestingly, this new physics could also explain a long-standing discrepancy in the measurement of the muon's anomalous magnetic moment . (nautil.us)
  • PURPOSE: Hypoxia is one of the most important factors influencing clinical outcome after radiotherapy. (lu.se)
  • If you can design a qubit that is less sensitive to these broken pairs, you can almost certainly design a physics detector that is more sensitive," says Ben Loer, also at PNNL, who worked on the study. (newscientist.com)
  • In particular, in the 2003 heatwave, which affected most of Europe, the average temperature was 3°C more than the normal value for the summers from 1961 to 1990 with the most significant increases being in central France, Switzerland, northern Italy and southern Germany", stressed Marco Cony, co-author of the study and physicist at the UCM. (sciencedaily.com)
  • In this study, we aimed to identify behavioral economic factors and personality characteristics of patients with breast cancer who had a delayed diagnosis. (bvsalud.org)
  • Over the past twenty years, members of the UNH Physics Department have been investigating Spin Exchange Optical Pumping (SEOP) to identify new technologies for producing nuclear polarized gases. (unh.edu)
  • Since the late 1960s, when physicists hit on the "particle zoo" at nuclear energies, they always had a good reason to build a larger collider. (blogspot.com)
  • In the second part, we will focus on the underlying event as an area of physics whose MC description can be improved before LHC running by use of Tevatron data, and which must be re-tuned to early LHC data when available, in order to make the most of LHC BSM studies in the early years of the collider. (lu.se)
  • We then present selected preliminary results from studies of event shapes and hadronisation observables from e+e- colliders, and of minimum bias and underlying event observables from the Tevatron, and comment on the approach needed with early LHC data to best exploit the potential for new physics discoveries at the LHC in the next few years. (lu.se)
  • This means that the length of a potential accelerator could be reduced by the same factor. (fau.eu)
  • Not too big or too small, muons are a sort of Goldilocks particle that are perfectly suited to aid physicists in their search for new physics. (symmetrymagazine.org)
  • Here the contribution of each configuration is determined by an exponential factor of exp(iS/ħ) where ħ is the Planck constant and S is the action that defines all physics depending on involved symmetries and particle fields. (wanpengtan.com)
  • That's a semi-log plot, so that nice straight line is an exponential decay, dropping by a factor of e for every 15 sites. (scienceblogs.com)
  • Irial has over 20 years' experience leading the delivery of software to enterprise customers across multiple industries. (ibec.ie)
  • The researchers have made hundreds of prototype graphene memory devices, and they work reliably, according to Barbaros Özyilmaz , the physics professor who led the work presented at a recent American Physical Society meeting in Pittsburgh. (technologyreview.com)
  • His high-precision measurements of the form factors of semi-leptonic decays of neutral kaons were included in the PDG tables and became the subject of his Candidate's thesis in 1977. (jinr.ru)
  • The problem is that the author, Nobel-Prize-winning physicist Dick Feynman, is annoying. (goodreads.com)
  • Although high-temperature superconductors are widely used in technologies such as MRI machines, explaining the unusual properties of these materials remains an unsolved problem for theoretical physicists. (ucsc.edu)
  • This type of problem is known as a Fermi Problem, named for physicist Enrico Fermi. (nails-beauty.de)
  • It also partners with other departments and programs at U of T to offer a range of collaborative undergraduate specialists, majors and minors, involving chemistry, geography, earth sciences, human biology, physics, philosophy and others. (utoronto.ca)
  • Physics and chemistry have come a long way. (phys.org)
  • When designing qubits, one of the most important factors is the coherence time, which is the amount of time a qubit can remain in a particular state . (newscientist.com)
  • What you may not hear about as much is the physics involved but understanding the science can help you take your throwing skills to the next level. (insidescience.org)
  • In a twist of irony, physicists once again reintroduced the cosmological constant into Einstein's field equations to account for dark energy. (space.com)
  • A physicist explains the science behind a tight spiral pass down the field. (insidescience.org)
  • It's also known that an electric field changes graphene's resistivity by a factor of typically 10. (technologyreview.com)
  • The rem is calculated by multiplying the absorbed dose (rad) by a quality (Q) factor or the radiation weighting factor (RWF), which reflects the differences in the amount of potential biological effect for each type of radiation. (medscape.com)
  • We could cycle 20 to 30 times, but not tens of thousands of times," says physicist Max Lemme, lead author of the paper. (technologyreview.com)