Understanding how electrons ‘dance’ in topological semimetals
UH physicist earns NSF CAREER Award to investigate materials' fundamental aspectsCredit: Preeti Gore Semimetals lie between metals and non-metals in ...
Tag: Particle Physics
HAWC: Are photons of extreme energies coming from the Galaxy’s largest accelerator?
Credit: Source: HAWC For years, in the vastness of our galaxy, astrophysicists have been tracking down pevatrons - natural accelerators ...
Missing baryons found in far-out reaches of galactic halos
Berkeley Lab physicists play key role in studies that solve a cosmological mysteryCredit: NASA Researchers have channeled the universe's earliest ...
‘We marry disorder with order’
Physicists able to determine properties of mesoporous materials more preciselyCredit: Photo: Swen Reichhold, Leipzig University He and his research group ...
A promising breakthrough for a better design of electronic materials
A deeper understanding of molecular vibrations can increase electron velocity in semiconductor materialsCredit: Christian Fleury (INRS) Finding the best materials ...
Use of perovskite will be a key feature of the next generation of electronic appliances
Nanomaterials of perovskite dispersed in hexane and irradiated by laser; light emission by these materials is intense thanks to resistance ...
New perovskite LED emits a circularly polarized glow
Credit: Adapted from: Kim, Y.H. et. al., Science (2021) Light-emitting diodes (LEDs) have revolutionized the displays industry. LEDs use electric ...
Tracking cosmic ghosts
Frontera supercomputer, a community resource for IceCube Neutrino Observatory research, enables the discovery of new high-energy particleCredit: IceCube Collaboration The ...
A monumental particle accelerator in the Cygnus Cocoon
Credit: Source: IFJ PAN / HAWC At the heart of Cygnus, one of the most beautiful constellations of the summer ...
Uncovering exotic molecules of potential astrochemical interest
Credit: © Institute of Physical Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences Looking at the night sky, one's thoughts might be drawn ...
New IceCube detection proves 60-year-old theory
Credit: IceCube Collaboration On December 6, 2016, a high-energy particle called an electron antineutrino was hurtling through space at nearly ...
IceCube detection of a high-energy particle proves 60-year-old theory
The South Pole neutrino detector saw a Glashow resonance event, a phenomenon predicted by Nobel laureate physicist Sheldon Glashow in ...
Finding quvigints in a quantum treasure map
Credit: Markus Rambach Researchers have struck quantum gold--and created a new word--by enlisting machine learning to efficiently navigate a 20-dimensional ...
Irradiating COVID-19 cough droplets with UV-C lamps
Using supercomputer numerical modeling of saliva droplets' diffusion produced by coughs, researchers in Italy explore deactivating COVID-19 virus particles via ...
Direct observation of coherence energy scale of Hund’s metal
Credit: POSTECH Strongly correlated systems are materials that exhibit strong interactions between electrons, a property unseen in ordinary conductors or ...
Filming a 3D video of a virus with instantaneous light and AI
Credit: POSTECH It is millions of trillions of times brighter than the sunlight and a whopping 1,000 trillionth of a ...
Cockcroft Institute awarded more than £11 million to boost accelerator research
Credit: STFC The Cockcroft Institute (CI), a partnership between the Universities of Lancaster, Liverpool, Manchester and Strathclyde, and the Science ...
Model describes interactions between light and mechanical vibration in microcavities
Study by researchers at the University of Campinas published in Physical Review Letters discusses both light dispersion by vibrations inside ...
Boston College physicist Brian Zhou receives NSF CAREER Award
Funding will support spatially imaging the flow of photocurrents inside quantum materialsCredit: Lee Pellegrini/Boston College Chestnut Hill, Mass. (3/1/2021) -- ...
Nuclear physicists on the hunt for squeezed protons
Nuclear physicists crank up the energy to put the squeeze on the proton and its quarksCredit: DOE's Jefferson Lab While ...
