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June 2012
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June 20, 2012breaking: Guests take a peek inside Tevatron experimentsIn connection with a symposium celebrating the Tevatron, Fermilab scientists gave special tours of the collider's two experiments. A reporter from Naperville Community Television Channel 17 took the opportunity to visit the detectors and filed this report.
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June 19, 2012breaking: New “particle physics Bible” releasedEvery two years, the international Particle Data Group releases a new edition of The Review of Particle Physics. The 2012 edition, which runs over 1,400 pages long, was released online today.
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June 18, 2012breaking: BaBar data may hint at new physicsA new crack in the Standard Model may be starting to form. Recently analyzed data from the BaBar experiment show that one type of particle decay happens more often than predicted by the Standard Model.
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June 15, 2012breaking: 99 things to do at TRIUMF physics laboratoryOver a couple of months in late 2011, the two communication interns, along with TRIUMF web publishing coordinator Jennifer Gagné, created “99 Things You Can Do At TRIUMF,” a video to give the non-initiated a peek into the lab life.
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June 14, 2012breaking: High-energy X-ray telescope lifts offIn a scene straight out of a James Bond film, NASA’s newest high-energy telescope launched into orbit yesterday after being dropped from the underbelly of a Lockheed airplane.
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June 12, 2012breaking: Beating the odds in the study of ultra-high-energy cosmic raysIt’s a mystery where ultra-high-energy cosmic rays come from and what they’re made of. But a new technique, currently in the works, could drastically improve scientists’ chances of finding out.
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June 8, 2012breaking: Neutrino velocity consistent with speed of lightEinstein can breathe a sigh of relief – neutrinos obey the cosmic speed limit after all.
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June 7, 2012breaking: Tracking neutrinos in liquid argonWith a 2012 DOE Early Career Research Award, Fermilab scientist Geralyn “Sam” Zeller will advance liquid-argon detector technology to capture neutrinos’ attributes in unprecedented detail.
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June 6, 2012breaking: OPERA observes second tau neutrinoThe OPERA collaboration announced its second observation of a tau neutrino, with strong implications for neutrino oscillation.
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June 5, 2012breaking: MINOS announces key neutrino measurementScientists from the MINOS experiment at Fermilab announced today the world’s most precise measurement of a key property of neutrinos. The results confirm that neutrinos and their antimatter counterparts, antineutrinos, have similar masses.
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June 5, 2012breaking: EXO-200 releases first resultsTo shed light on whether or not the neutrino and the antineutrino are one, the EXO-200 collaboration searches for a process that’s only possible if the neutrino and antineutrino are indeed the same. Yesterday, they released their first results: they’ve seen nothing. And that's not a bad thing.
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June 4, 2012breaking: June issue of symmetry now onlineThis month, symmetry brings the Standard Model to life explaining the importance of the muon, describes a promising new tool for detecting pre-cancerous tissue, catches glimpse of a cartoon character in the Tevatron tunnel, and watches a theater performance 1400 meters below ground.
May 2012
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May 31, 2012breaking: Underground science lab dedicated deep in the Black HillsWednesday, May 30, marked the official opening of the Davis Campus of the Sanford Underground Research Facility, 4,850 feet down in the former Homestake gold mine in Lead, South Dakota.
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May 29, 2012breaking: DOE awards $2.5 million to Fermilab’s Brendan CaseyThis month, the Department of Energy’s Office of Science named Fermilab's Brendan Casey a recipient of the 2012 DOE Early Career Research Award. It will support his research on the detector technology for the Muon g-2 experiment with a total of $2.5 million over five years.
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May 24, 2012breaking: Physicists, start your searches: INSPIRE database now onlineThe next generation of the iconic SPIRES particle-physics database, called INSPIRE, is now online and operational, ready to serve scientists around the globe.
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May 22, 2012breaking: Driving the next magnet revolutionThe Department of Energy recently presented an Early Career Award to Tengming Shen, an engineer working to spur the next magnet revolution.
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May 17, 2012breaking: Scientists celebrate completion of underground physics laboratoryThe elevator that sinks into the Vale Creighton Mine near Sudbury, Ontario, is a gateway to two different worlds. One is Canada’s largest nickel mine, opened at the turn of the last century and still in operation. The other is SNOLAB, a large underground particle physics laboratory, the grand opening of which will take place today.
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May 16, 2012breaking: Thursday: Chat with physicists on TwitterTomorrow at 1 p.m. EST, accelerator physicists from four national laboratories will take to Twitter to discuss discovery science with the tweeting public. To take part in the event, dubbed Lab Breakthrough Office Hours, use the hashtag #labchat.
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May 15, 2012breaking: Researchers developing underwater neutrino experiment make oceanographic discoveryResearchers deciding where to place the planned Neutrino Mediterranean Observatory, or NEMO, were measuring water currents and temperatures when they stumbled upon unexpected patterns in the water.
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May 9, 2012breaking: New accelerator to study steps on the path to fusionBerkeley Lab scientists and engineers announced in a press release today that they have completed a machine tailor-made to examine an approach to fusion power.
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