Collaborate Disseminate
On New York’s Long Island, scientists are building an ambitious machine to tease apart the mysteries held inside atomic nuclei. A major component of that system is the world’s highest voltage electron gun and it’s just aced a six-month test.Continue Re… Continue reading Ray gun accelerates electrons from zero to 500 million mph in two inches
It is funny how sometimes things you think are bad turn out to be good in retrospect. Like many of us, when I was a kid, I was fascinated by …read more Continue reading The Book That Could Have Killed Me
Supermassive black holes have been known to belch gigantic beams of plasma into space – and now scientists have managed to recreate these fireballs in a lab at CERN.Continue ReadingCategory: Physics, ScienceTags: Black hole, Supermassive black hole, As… Continue reading Plasma fireballs from black holes are now being made here on Earth
Professor Peter Higgs has died aged 94. The theoretical physicist was best known for his prediction of a key elementary particle, the Higgs boson, which earned him the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics soon after its discovery.Continue ReadingCategory: Physi… Continue reading Professor Peter Higgs, renowned for Higgs boson prediction, dies aged 94
Using off-the-shelf industrial parts, a team of researchers from the public and private sectors has created a prototype of a small particle accelerator that could have a big impact bringing the technology forward for commercial applications.Continue Re… Continue reading General Atomics is working on a “small, commercial particle accelerator”
The USA has only two accelerators that can produce 10 billion electron-volt particle beams, and they’re each about 1.9 miles (3 km) long. “We can now reach those energies in 10 cm (4 inches),” said the CEO of TAU Systems, which has built an ultra-compa… Continue reading Ultra-compact particle accelerator does a mile’s work with four inches
When you think of a particle accelerator, you usually think of some giant cyclotron with heavy-duty equipment in a massive mad-science lab. But scientists now believe they can create particle …read more Continue reading Particle Accelerator… on a Chip
There are many applications for particle accelerators, even outside research facilities, but for the longest time they have been large, cumbersome machines, not to mention very expensive to operate. Here …read more Continue reading Accelerating Electrons to TeV Levels Using Curved Laser Beams
For those of us who like to crawl over complex systems, spending hours or even days getting hardware and software to work in concert, working at places like NASA or …read more Continue reading Daniel Valuch Chats About CERN’s High Caliber Hacking
Physicists at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) have discovered a completely new type of quantum entanglement, the spooky phenomenon that binds particles across any distance. In particle collider experiments, the new entanglement allowed scientists … Continue reading Physicists discover completely new type of quantum entanglement