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Argonne National Lab wins prestigious 2012 R&D 100 award for development of Large Area Microchannel Plate Detectors
View ArticleLBNL Scientist Shares 2011 Physics Nobel Prize
Astrophysicist Saul Perlmutter wins Nobel “for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the universe through observations of distant supernovae.”
View ArticleNew Particle Discovered May be the Long-Sought Higgs
Particle may help explain the origins of mass.
View ArticleUniverse in a (Blue) Bottle
Simulating the evolution of the universe on the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility’s IBM Blue Gene/Q.
View ArticleBELLA World Record Sets Stage for Laser Experiments in Novel Acceleration...
Laser Delivers One Petawatt of Power in a Pulse only 40 Femtoseconds Long Every Second
View ArticleThe Higgs: Not the Only Boson in Town
Another boson has been found at the LHC that could help refine our understanding of the strong force.
View ArticleHow Accelerator Physicists Save Time
A boosted frame of reference boosts the speed of calculations.
View ArticleSupercomputing on a Budget
The optimization of commercial hardware and specialized software enables cost-effective supercomputing.
View ArticleThe Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment Sees Evidence that Electron...
Surprisingly large effect greatly increases the probability that new neutrino experiments will be able to see the differences between matter and antimatter.
View ArticleTwo GeV Electrons Achieved by Laser Plasma Wakefield Acceleration
Scientists at University of Texas, Austin, accelerate electrons to 2 GeV in table top apparatus.
View ArticleMassive Energy Storage in Superconductors (SMES)
Novel high temperature superconductor magnet technology charts new territory.
View ArticlePatterns in the Cosmos Trace Evolution of the Universe
Detection of subtle polarization patterns in the Cosmic Microwave Background opens a new window on fundamental physics and cosmology.
View ArticleAdvances in High Power Compact Accelerators
Argonne superconducting radiofrequency technology boosts a variety of applications.
View ArticleA Nobel for Neutrinos: Sudbury Neutrino Observatory
Discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrinos have mass, garners the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics.
View ArticleA Nobel for Neutrinos: Super-Kamiokande
Discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrinos have mass, garners the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics.
View ArticleNew Limits in the Search for Sterile Neutrinos
New searches for sterile neutrinos, hypothetical particles that do not directly “talk to” any particles in the Standard Model, significantly narrow the remaining regions where these particles may be...
View ArticleShattering Protons in High-Energy Collisions Confirms Higgs Boson Production
New results confirm the rate of Higgs boson production, matching our understanding of how the universe works.
View ArticleLaser Stripping Powers Protons
Researchers demonstrate a new technique that could lead to significantly higher power proton beams used to answer tough scientific questions.
View ArticleStudying Crowd Behavior at MINERvA
Detector measures the energy a neutrino imparts to protons and neutrons to help explain the nature of matter and the universe.
View ArticlePure as the Driven X-Ray
Seeding x-ray free electron lasers with customized electron beams produces incredibly stable laser pulses that could enable new scientific discoveries.
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