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Research on Heavy Ion Collision Provides Insights into Mass of Visible Matter

Recently, researchers performing proton collision at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Europe provided proof for the existence of a sought-after particle known as the Higgs boson, which is believed to be responsible for the mass of matter.

16 Aug 2012

Study Results Provide New Insights into Dark Matter

In a study submitted to Physical Review D, a journal of the American Physical Society, astrophysicists from the University of California, Irvine, have discovered that gamma-ray photons originating from the Milky Way galactic center are consistent with the interesting leeway that dark-matter particles are destructing each other in space.

14 Aug 2012

CERN’s Large Hadron Collider Experiments Advance Understanding of Primordial Universe

Experimentations utilizing heavy ions at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have made significant advancements in understanding the primordial universe.

14 Aug 2012

'Magnetricity' For High-Density Data Storage

When bar magnets with north and south magnetic poles are sawed in half, the resultant pieces of the magnet also possesses a north and a south pole. Magnetic monopoles were not possible. However, recently, monopoles in the form of "quasiparticles" have been demonstrated in laboratories. These particles are the collective excitations that occur among many atoms.

10 Aug 2012

Astronomers Discover Dark Matter Close to Sun

Astronomers at the ETH Zürich and the University of Zürich along with a team of international researchers have discovered large quantities of dark invisible matter in close proximity to the sun. It has been believed till now that a massive “halo” of dark matter surrounds the Milky Way Galaxy, but these observations contradict this theory.

10 Aug 2012

Researchers Capture Images of Quantum Entanglement on Camera

A research group comprising Daniel Tasca, Matthew Edgar and Professor Miles Padgett from the School of Physics and Astronomy of the University of Glasgow has for the first time captured imagery of a quantum phenomenon called ‘quantum entanglement’ utilizing a highly-sensitive camera.

9 Aug 2012

Researchers Observe Higgs Transition of Electron Monopoles in Magnets

A research study carried out by an international team comprising Dr. Shigeki Onoda from the Condensed Matter Theory Lab at the RIKEN Advanced Science Institute, Dr. Yixi Su from the Jülich Center for Neutron Science JCNS-FRM II at Forschungszentrum Jülich and Dr. Lieh-Jeng Chang belonging to the Japan Atomic Energy Agency and Physics Department of the National Cheng Kung University has yielded nominal evidence of Higgs transition of monopoles of electron spins in a magnet, Yb2Ti2O7 at an absolute temperature of 0.21 K.

8 Aug 2012

Quantum Discord Provides Easier Path to Realize Future Quantum Technologies

An international team comprising researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS), The Australian National University (ANU), the University of Oxford and the University of Queensland have discovered that quantum discord, an easier accessible and more robust phenomenon, can provide a quantum advantage.

6 Aug 2012

New Study Provides Rich Insights into Majorana Particles

Physicists from Dartmouth College have reported their work on an exotic particle called Majorana in a paper published in the Physical Review Letters journal.

3 Aug 2012

Physicists Detect Higgs Excitations in Low-Dimensional System of Ultracold Atoms

Physicists have detected Higgs excitations near absolute zero. In a low-dimensional system containing ultracold atoms, the team was able to detect Higgs-type excitations at the transition phase of matter.

27 Jul 2012