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May 2012
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May 7, 2012breaking: Fermilab scientists revise plans for construction of new accelerator projectWith their eyes on the tight federal budget, scientists plan to divide Project X, the accelerator project that will power Fermilab's future experiments, into phases in order to lessen the initial costs.
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May 3, 2012breaking: NOvA neutrino detector's future home in Minnesota completeOn April 27, more than 250 people gathered to inaugurate the NOvA facility near the Ash River in northern Minnesota.
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May 1, 2012breaking: May 2012 issue of symmetry availableWe’ve done it again. The May issue of symmetry is now available online.
April 2012
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April 30, 2012breaking: FACET test facility hosts first usersAfter months of installation and commissioning efforts, FACET, the Facility for Advanced Accelerator Experimental Tests, welcomed its first two groups of experimenters on Friday.
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April 27, 2012breaking: CMS collaboration discovers its first new particleMembers of the CMS collaboration announced the experiment’s first discovery of a new particle today.
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April 26, 2012breaking: Citizen scientists find new purpose in pulsar searchA project that lets citizen volunteers contribute to scientists' search for gravitational waves, theoretical ripples in the fabric of space-time, has expanded its efforts -- with impressive results.
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April 24, 2012breaking: World’s largest digital camera one step closer to realityPerched high atop Cerro Pachón in the Chilean Andes, the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope will take the largest, fastest, most detailed pictures of the Southern Hemisphere’s night sky. With these images, researchers around the world will seek to reveal the nature of dark matter and dark energy—and to answer a host of other questions in astronomy and physics.
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April 20, 2012breaking: Fermi uses gamma rays to unearth clues about "empty" spaceThe team working on the Large Area Telescope has discovered that most gamma rays detected by LAT cannot be attributed to individual point sources.
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April 18, 2012breaking: Listening for the sound of scienceEver wonder what physics sounds like? Composer and network engineer Domenico Vicinanza recently created a musical score that mimics the tracks of subatomic particles.
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April 11, 2012breaking: Two proposed linear collider programs to be joined under new governanceThe world’s two most mature proposals for a collider complementary to the Large Hadron Collider are joining collaborative forces. The two proposed electron-positron collider projects, the Compact Linear Collider Study and the International Linear Collider, have traditionally been viewed as casual rivals--both in the running to be built as the future complement to CERN’s proton-smashing machine, the LHC.
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April 9, 2012breaking: Tevatron experiment confirms LHC discovery of Chi-b (P3) particleThe DZero experiment at Fermilab’s Tevatron collider has confirmed the discovery of a new particle from an experiment at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider.
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April 5, 2012breaking: LHC physics data taking gets underway at new record collision energy of 8 TeVAt just after midnight in Geneva, operators brought stable beams of protons into collisions at the record-breaking energy of 8 TeV -- 4 TeV per beam -- for the first time. This marked the beginning of the LHC experiments' data-taking for physics for 2012.
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April 4, 2012breaking: Physicists mobilize to rescue U.S. neutrino experimentNeutrino physicists in the U.S. have begun to regroup after a disappointing setback last week, when they learned the Department of Energy would not support the budget of a major proposed experiment.
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April 4, 2012breaking: Korean experiment confirms groundbreaking neutrino measurementHot on the heels of the Daya Bay experiment's completion of one of the most difficult measurements in neutrino physics, a Korean experiment has produced its own measurement confirming the earlier results.
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April 2, 2012breaking: April 2012 issue of symmetry availableWe hear ya. In response to requests from a number of readers, we're bringing back the downloadable, printable pdf version of symmetry with this issue.
March 2012
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March 29, 2012breaking: Supercomputing the difference between matter and antimatterAn international collaboration of scientists has reported a landmark calculation of the decay process of a kaon into two pions, using breakthrough techniques on some of the world's fastest supercomputers.
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March 28, 2012breaking: Moving day for experiment examining whether neutrinos are their own antiparticlesThe Majorana Demonstrator collaboration began moving their experiment into the Davis Campus on the 4850 Level this week.
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March 22, 2012breaking: Digital artist creates new kind of experiment at CERNIf attendees at the welcome reception for CERN’s first artist-in-residence learned one thing last night, it was that Julius von Bismarck is not afraid to disrupt others with his art.
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March 20, 2012breaking: More physics for your fundingThe decommissioning of the Tevatron represented the end of an era, but it also is ushering in the next generation of physics by providing valuable equipment to other experiments.
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March 16, 2012breaking: New neutrino measurement finds particles obeying speed limitScientists on the ICARUS experiment at Gran Sasso, Italy, announced today that they had found no evidence of superluminal neutrinos in a cross-check of earlier analysis from the OPERA experiment, also located at Gran Sasso.
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