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World's Largest Atom Smasher May Have Just Found Evidence for Why Our Universe Exists
Live Science - Stephanie Pappas
For the first time ever, physicists at the world’s largest atom smasher have observed differences in the decay of particles and antiparticles …
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Physics
Physicists calculate proton's pressure distribution for first time
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February 22, 2019 by Jennifer Chu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Neutron stars are among the densest-known objects in the universe, …
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CERN
CERN: Study sheds light on one of physics' biggest mysteries – why there's more matter than antimatter
The Conversation UK - Marco Gersabeck
Why do we exist? This is arguably the most profound question there is and one that may seem completely outside the scope of particle physics. But our …
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Why an Incredible New CERN Observation Has Physicists Popping Champagne
Gizmodo - Ryan F. Mandelbaum
Scientists have announced the observation of “CP violation in a D0 meson” at CERN, a discovery that will appear in physics textbooks for years to …
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Exact top Yukawa corrections to Higgs boson decay into bottom quarks
aps.org - Amedeo Primo, Gianmarco Sasso, Gábor Somogyi, and Francesco Tramontano
Author(s): Amedeo Primo, Gianmarco Sasso, Gábor Somogyi, and Francesco TramontanoIn this paper we present the results of the exact computation of …
Particles
Sea quark surprise reveals deeper complexity in proton spin puzzle
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New results from STAR experiment show antiquarks' contribution to proton spin depends on 'flavor' -- and in a way that's opposite to those flavors' …
CERN
Big Bang AR app - Background information | CERN
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Why an AR app? Augmented, or mixed, reality because an app telling the story of the universe should be immersive: everything around us – and we – are …
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Protons
Physicists Used Supercomputers to Map the Bone-Crushing Pressures Hiding Inside Protons
Live Science - Rafi Letzter
If you got aboard the Magic School Bus and started shrinking — smaller than an ant or an amoeba or a single cell, and then kept shrinking until …
Neutrons
Physicists solve 35-year-old mystery about quarks
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Number of proton-neutron pairs in an atom determines how fast particles move, say Tel Aviv University, MIT, Thomas Jefferson researchers Quarks, the …
American Physical Society
Search for Narrow $Hγ$ Resonances in Proton-Proton Collisions at $\sqrt{s}=13\text{ }\text{ }\mathrm{TeV}$
aps.org - A. M. Sirunyan et al. (CMS Collaboration)
Author(s): A. M. Sirunyan et al. (CMS Collaboration)A search for heavy, narrow resonances decaying to a Higgs boson and a photon (Hγ) has been …
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Physics
Making sense of how the blind ‘see’ color
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What do you think of when you think of a rainbow? If you’re sighted, you’re probably imagining colors arcing through the sky just after the rain.But …
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Protons
How are elements broken down into protons, electrons and neutrons?
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This explanation is provided by the team of Stephen Reucroft and John D. Swain, professors at the Department of Physics of Northeastern …
CERN
The Intersecting Storage Rings | CERN
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On 27 January 1971, two beams of protons collided in the Intersecting Storage Rings (ISR) for the first time. Physicists had planned this machine in …
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Physicists Solve a 35-Year-Old Mystery Hidden Inside Atomic Cores
scientificamerican.com - Rafi Letzter, LiveScience
Here’s a mysterious truth that scientists have known since 1983: Protons and neutrons act differently when they’re inside an atom, versus floating …
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10 words that mean something different to physicists
symmetrymagazine.org - By Lauren Biron
Given the popularity of our first article about physics concepts with deceptively common names, Symmetry is back with 10 more seemingly normal words …
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Scientists May Have Solved a 35 Year Old Quantum Mystery
interestingengineering.com - John Loeffler
An international team of scientists may finally have solved the mystery of why quarks change once they enter an atomic nucleus
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Quirks and Quarks | Scientists can read the 'rust' on a person's DNA to predict when they'll die
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Quirks and Quarks with Bob McDonald: Stressors like smoking and obesity leave marks on DNA that can reveal your biological rather than your calendar …
Physics
Physicists Just Solved a 35-Year-Old Mystery Hidden Inside Atomic Cores | Space
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Here's a mysterious truth that scientists have known since 1983: Protons and neutrons act differently when they're inside an atom, versus floating …
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Physicists Just Solved a 35-Year-Old Mystery Hidden Inside Atomic Cores
Live Science - Rafi Letzter
Here's a mysterious truth that scientists have known since 1983: Protons and neutrons act differently when they're inside an atom, versus floating …
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CERN
LHCb catches fast-spinning charmonium particle
home.cern - By Ana Lopes
The LHCb collaboration has spotted a new particle. Its mass and other properties place it squarely in the charmonium family that includes the …
Wine
Wine Criticism and Appreciation (Part 1 in a Series)
foodandwineaesthetics.com - Posted by Dwight Furrow in Philosophy of Food and Wine ≈ 1 Comment
I’m about to embark on a series of posts about wine criticism—what its aim is, what it takes to be good at it, and the kinds of analyses of wine that …
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Neutrons
Physicists Have Finally Solved a Fundamental Mystery Concerning The Insides of Atoms
ScienceAlert - MIKE MCRAE
Something about atoms has never added up. Fundamental particles called quarks get kind of sluggish once they're caught up in crowds of protons and …
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Neutrons
MIT researchers solve decades-old quark quandary
slashgear.com - Shane McGlaun
Physicists from MIT have announced that they have discovered the answer to a question that has challenged nuclear physicists for 35 years. That …
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Protons
Fundamental mystery concerning the insides of atoms has been solved
techexplorist.com - Amit Malewar
For decades, physicists have hunted for clues on the quark’s tendency to slow down in larger atoms, but have come up empty-handed. Now, a massive …
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Neutrons
Why neutrons and protons are modified inside nuclei
nature.com - Gerald Feldman
The structure of a neutron or a proton is modified when the particle is bound in an atomic nucleus. Experimental data suggest an explanation for this …
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Protons
Correlated nucleons may solve 35-year-old mystery
phys.org - Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
He says that he and his colleagues think what's going on is that the roughly 20 percent of the nucleons in a nucleus's correlated pairs at any one …
The New Yorker
Physics
A Different Kind of Theory of Everything
The New Yorker - Natalie Wolchover
Physicists used to search for the smallest components of the universe. What if that’s not the point? In 1964, during a lecture at Cornell University, the physicist Richard Feynman articulated a profound
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Neutron Star Collisions Could Reveal Quark Matter
realclearscience.com - Ryan Mandelbaum
Scientists are dreaming up ways to probe the nature of the Universe's smallest bits—quarks—by observing ultra-dense neutron stars slamming into each …
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Neutron Star Collisions Could Reveal Mysterious Quark Matter
Gizmodo - Ryan F. Mandelbaum
Scientists are dreaming up ways to probe the nature of the Universe’s smallest bits—quarks—by observing ultra-dense neutron stars slamming into each …