Jessica Orwig
January 2013
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January 7, 2013signal to background: The secret of Picasso’s paintArgonne National Laboratory proves that Pablo Picasso created some of his masterpieces using high-grade house paint.
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January 3, 2013breaking: The gift of beam: Neutron therapy restarts at FermilabWith a new power source operating at Fermilab's accelerator complex, the laboratory reopened its cancer treatment facility over the holidays.
December 2012
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December 21, 2012signal to background: Holiday characters take over the physics labEver wonder if a particle collider could give you a faster way to cook your turkey, or how much antimatter it would take to power your holiday lights? Rudolph, Frosty and the gang invade the laboratory to find the answers.
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December 10, 2012signal to background: Zombies invade the LHC in student-made horror filmDecay, a low-budget horror film starring PhD students and postdocs at CERN, has been released online.
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December 6, 2012breaking: Budget woes force rethink of proposed flagship physics experiment in ItalyThe Italian government has withdrawn funding for a high-profile proposed experiment. Scientists are now brainstorming other ways to advance particle physics.
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December 5, 2012breaking: Scientists propose new projects to unravel dark energy secretsScientists have risen to the challenge to design an experiment that will make measurements of millions of galaxies to probe dark energy in new ways.
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December 3, 2012feature: Complex simulations: a driving force for LSSTThe Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, the world’s largest sky survey, will rain a monsoon of data onto the astrophysics community. Simulations prepare scientists for the approaching storm.
November 2012
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November 13, 2012deconstruction: How to make a neutrino beamNeutrinos are elusive particles that are difficult to study, yet they may help explain some of the biggest mysteries of our universe. Using accelerators to make neutrino beams, scientists are unveiling the neutrinos’ secrets.
October 2012
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October 29, 2012signal to background: Dark-matter seekers get help from the DarkSideFilled with rare, low-radioactivity material, the DarkSide-50 experiment will have some of the lowest background rates of any dark-matter detector. That should help it detect highly sought-after dark-matter candidates called weakly interacting massive particles, or WIMPs.
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October 10, 2012signal to background: Time projection chambers: a milestone in particle detector technologyAt the heart of many particle physics experiments sits a device with a catchy name: the time projection chamber. With an important job and a storied history, TPCs have a special place in particle physics.
September 2012
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September 20, 2012signal to background: African School of Physics student awarded international fellowshipLaza Rakotondravohitra will pursue his Ph.D. as part of the MINERvA experiment at Fermilab.
