View of the BASE experiment (Image: CERN)
BASE breaks new ground in matter–antimatter comparisons
In a paper published today in the journal Nature, the BASE collaboration at CERN reports the most precise comparison yet between protons and antiprotons, the antimatter counterparts of protons.
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QUP start-up members and nominated-PIs
QUP becomes a new center of KEK
A new World Premier International Research Center Initiative (WPI) promoted by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) is in place at KEK. The award was announced in the previous news article https://www.kek.jp/en/press-en/202110081335/. The new center, the International Center for Quantum-field Measurement Systems for Studies of the Universe and Particles (QUP), is officially launched on the 16th December 2021.
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Run 22 at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) will feature collisions of polarized protons, new data collected by upgraded components of the STAR detector, and tests of innovative accelerator techniques.
Start-up of 22nd Run at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC)
Particle smashups have begun for Run 22 at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). RHIC, a 2.4-mile-circumference particle collider at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory, operates as a DOE Office of Science user facility, serving up data from particle collisions to nuclear physicists all around the world. On the menu this run: collisions between beams of polarized protons interspersed with tests of innovative accelerator techniques. During the run, RHIC’s recently upgraded STAR detector will track particles emerging from collisions at a wider range of angles than ever before.
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The first woman on the DESY Board of Directors: Beate Heinemann. Image: DESY / Angela Pfeiffer
Beate Heinemann to become new Director in charge of Particle Physics at DESY
Beate Heinemann, Senior Scientist at DESY and Professor of Physics at University of Freiburg, will take over the High Energy Physics division at DESY as Director on 1 February. This was unanimously decided by DESY's supervisory body, the Foundation Council, at its meeting on 7 December. Heinemann is the first female Director in DESY’s history.
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The international MicroBooNE experiment uses a 170-ton detector placed in Fermilab’s neutrino beam. The experiment studies neutrino interactions and has found no hint of a theorized fourth neutrino called the sterile neutrino. Photo: Reidar Hahn, Fermilab.
MicroBooNE experiment’s first results show no hint of a sterile neutrino
New results from the MicroBooNE experiment at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory deal a blow to a theoretical particle known as the sterile neutrino. For more than two decades, this proposed fourth neutrino has remained a promising explanation for anomalies seen in earlier physics experiments. Finding a new particle would be a major discovery and a radical shift in our understanding of the universe.
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“Ask me anything” features panel of dark matter experts
In a Universe filled with the light from our sun and distant stars, it is difficult to conceive of it as mostly dark. When we look around our world and into space, we see enormous variety—trees, birds, planets, asteroids and stars. This visible matter accounts for about 15 percent of all the matter in the Universe. The rest is called dark matter. Although it doesn’t interact with light and may interact weakly with normal matter, scientists believe it exists because of its gravitational effects in the Universe. Think of dark matter as an enormous iceberg floating in the ocean—what you see is a mere fraction of what lies beneath the water.
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The picture is a modified variant of the original Veronika McQuade's computer centre shot (Image: CERN)
CERN Quantum Technology Initiative unveils strategic roadmap shaping CERN’s role in next quantum revolution
The CERN Quantum Technology Initiative (CERN QTI) reaches its next milestone today, with the unveiling of a first roadmap defining its medium- and long-term quantum research programme. The roadmap details the CERN QTI goals and strategy, and outlines its governing structure and the composition of its international advisory board, as well as the activities to support the exchange of knowledge and innovation with the high-energy physics community and beyond in the extensive field of quantum technologies. Through CERN QTI, CERN is disseminating its enabling technologies – such as quantum state sensors, time synchronisation protocols, and many more from the cryogenics, electronics, quantum theory and computing domains – to accelerate the development of quantum technologies.
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The PHENIX detector at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory
Direct Photons Offer Glimpse of Gluons' Dynamic Motion
Scientists seeking to explore the teeming microcosm of quarks and gluons inside protons and neutrons report new data delivered by particles of light. The light particles, or photons, come directly from interactions of a quark in one proton colliding with a gluon in another at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). By tracking these “direct photons,” members of RHIC’s PHENIX Collaboration say they are getting a glimpse—albeit a blurry one—of gluons’ transverse motion within the building blocks of atomic nuclei.
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Dr. Masashi Hazumi (left) and Dr. Masanori Yamauchi (right)
KEK will launch a new world premier international research center
KEK is awarded to host a new world premier international research center for quantum-field measurement systems. It is the 14th World Premier International Research Center Initiative (WPI) promoted by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) such as Kavli IPMU.
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Dark Matter Day aims to shed light on the missing matter of the universe
We live in a universe we know surprisingly little about. The normal matter we can see—like people, planets, stars, and even peanut butter—accounts for an estimated 20 percent of all the matter in the universe. The remaining approximately 80 percent is called dark matter. We can’t see it and we don’t know what is, yet this ubiquitous substance whizzes through the universe—and us—all the time. So how do we know dark matter exists?
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