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New Technology Paves Way for Highly Sensitive Photodetectors with...

Argonne National Lab wins prestigious 2012 R&D 100 award for development of Large Area Microchannel Plate Detectors

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LBNL 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.”

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New Particle Discovered May be the Long-Sought Higgs

Particle may help explain the origins of mass.

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Universe in a (Blue) Bottle

Simulating the evolution of the universe on the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility’s IBM Blue Gene/Q.

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BELLA 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

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The 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.

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How Accelerator Physicists Save Time

A boosted frame of reference boosts the speed of calculations.

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Supercomputing on a Budget

The optimization of commercial hardware and specialized software enables cost-effective supercomputing.

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The 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.

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Two GeV Electrons Achieved by Laser Plasma Wakefield Acceleration

Scientists at University of Texas, Austin, accelerate electrons to 2 GeV in table top apparatus.

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Massive Energy Storage in Superconductors (SMES)

Novel high temperature superconductor magnet technology charts new territory.

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Patterns 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.

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Advances in High Power Compact Accelerators

Argonne superconducting radiofrequency technology boosts a variety of applications.

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A Nobel for Neutrinos: Sudbury Neutrino Observatory

Discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrinos have mass, garners the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics.

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A Nobel for Neutrinos: Super-Kamiokande

Discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrinos have mass, garners the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics.

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New 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...

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Shattering 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.

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Laser Stripping Powers Protons

Researchers demonstrate a new technique that could lead to significantly higher power proton beams used to answer tough scientific questions.

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Studying 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.

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Pure 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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