Physicist Jean Tran Thanh Van, creator of one of the most prestigious particle physics conferences, is the king of connections. His humanitarian efforts, combined with his vision of a cohesive international particle physics community, have now led him back to his home country of Vietnam.
May 2012
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Hunting dark matter with BaBar
Light dark photons? Dark Higgs bosons? Scientists look for signs of these weird-sounding particles in data from BaBar—an experiment designed to explain a completely different mystery.
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Application
Particle physics and your ride
Metal products contain microscopic stresses that can grow into bigger problems. How engineers choose to manage these stresses makes all the difference.
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Signal to background
The electron’s dance
When most people think about France and particle physics, they think of the Large Hadron Collider. But around Paris, it’s a tabletop accelerator that has locals amped up.
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Explain it in 60 seconds
Muon
Meet the Twinkie of particle physics: the muon.
Trending on the Web
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Energy.gov, May 14, 2012
Lab breakthroughs: Accelerators
Particle accelerators are revealing insight into energy, manufacturing, defense, nuclear power, the first microseconds of the universe and more.
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Technology Review, May 14, 2012
Antimatter propulsion engine redesigned using CERN's particle physics simulation toolkit
Using software that simulates how particles behave in colliders, researchers show that magnetic nozzles could be extremely efficient.
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Forbes, May 11, 2012
Chinese researchers quantum teleport photons over 60 miles
Researchers at China’s University of Science and Technology have teleported photons more than 60 miles.
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Gizmodo, May 9, 2012
We may absorb 60 dark matter particles an hour
A new study suggests that Weakly Interacting Massive Particles might strike our bodies once every minute.
Accelerator Application
Food packaging
Low-energy electron beams from particle accelerators are an environmentally friendly way to sterilize food packaging—one that uses less material and energy, produces less waste and leaves no chemical residues...
