Early Particle Accelerators Mar 6, 2008
Cyclotrons, on the other hand, are still being used today some for their unique abilities at examining further dimensions of nuclear physics, and some, believe it or not, to help treat cancer. Finely tuned ion beams from these machines have been frequently used to target and destroy cancerous tissue in patients. (Suite101.com)
Deadline looms for science cuts Mar 5, 2008
To decide which STFC projects and facilities are priorities, Sir Peter and other advisors were asked to draw up two lists - split between particle physics, astronomy and nuclear physics (PPAN), and physics and life sciences (PAL). GEO 600 is a "high priority" project. (BBC News -- Science)
A Beaming Borbidge Mar 5, 2008
Ziggy's PhD in nuclear physics and his good connections with John Howard's forgotten men seemed to have been the clincher in winning him the task of inquiring into nuclear power options for the ousted government. But now the ANSTO chairman has told a conference he has pretty much given up on Australia as a user of nuclear energy for creating electricity "for the time being". (Sydney Morning Herald -- Business)
Strange World Of Quarks, Gluons, Described By Physicist Feb 24, 2008
As a consequence, none of the analytical techniques used to successfully solve atomic and nuclear physics problems can be used to analyze quarks and gluons. Instead, physicists use lattice field theory to study QCD interactions. (Science Daily)
Creating a new universe Hoboken scientist/author pens sci-fi thriller Feb 21, 2008
D. in nuclear physics from the University of Liverpool in England. Ying came to the States in 1993 and moved to Hoboken six years ago. (Hoboken Reporter, NJ)
Saturn's Mingling Moons Share Dark Past Feb 21, 2008
A paper led by Frank Postberg of the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg, Germany, says there are traces of organic compounds or silicate materials within the water ice-dominated E-ring, close to Enceladus. This implies that the moon's rocky core and liquid water are dynamically interacting. (Science Daily)
Post a comment Feb 19, 2008
The good news is her ideas are not as socialist as Obamas, who knows as much about economics as Britteny Spears knows about nuclear physics. Do not believe me. (International Herald Tribune)
In California, Insurers Take More Heat Feb 15, 2008
But being in that arena, I can tell you that most malpractice lawyers are incompetent ambulance chasers, who know as much about malpractice as i know about nuclear physics. Comment by Steve - February 14, 2008 at. (Wall Street Journal)
Working with nature topic of local energy summit Feb 14, 2008
A lot of things could be holding you back from living a more environmentally-friendly lifestyle the price tag, the bazillion green options to choose from or the technology that seems as complicated as nuclear physics. We get into the American dream, and everyone has their own house and a standard square yard, but that s not sustainable, said Michael Anschel of a Minneapolis-based architectural firm committed to urban living and green design, remodeling and building. (Winona Daily News, MN)
Particle Accelerator: Signals Sent Racing Ahead At Light Speed To Keep Particles Colliding Feb 8, 2008
Research at RHIC is funded primarily by the Office of Nuclear Physics within the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science and by various national and international collaborating institutions. Adapted from materials provided by. (Science Daily)
Nuclear, Coal, Science Get Boost in Bush Budget Feb 5, 2008
The budget requests big funding boosts for research into high energy physics, nuclear physics and basic energy sciences, which saw funding rise 19 percent to US$1. 57 billion. (Planet Ark, United States)
Never mind the height of a building - feel its intelligence Feb 4, 2008
But we all know that the smoking ban has merely displaced the problem: non-smokers now have to gag through a saltpetre-inflected purple haze on the windy, wet streets while pub interiors are as fresh and bright and empty as a Basel nuclear physics lab. But, as ever, the law of unintended consequences now comes into play. (Guardian Unlimited -- Society)
Local imam fights to regain security clearance Feb 3, 2008
" That sentence has cost plenty of people their clearances for reasons that seem insubstantial, according to Mr. Spitzer, of the ACLU. "The incentive for the agents is always to protect themselves by erring on the side of denial," Mr. Spitzer said. Prison troubles Up to now, Dr. El-Ganayni's life has been an immigrant success story. He left his native Egypt in his mid-20s with a master's degree in nuclear physics from Ain Shams University in Cairo. He enrolled at the University of Pittsburgh,... (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Scientists Propose Test Of String Theory Based On Neutral Hydrogen Absorption Feb 2, 2008
4, 2002) Theoretical physicist Lennaert Huiszoon has described a new family of strings in research conducted at the National Institute for Nuclear Physics and High Energy Physics. He investigated so-called. (Science Daily)
20 comments Feb 1, 2008
In nuclear physics, every subatomic particle has an opposite. When they collide, they combine to produce another particle that resembles neither. (Human Events Online)
Zecotek Receives MAPD Solid-State Photo Detector Order From the University of Geneva, Switzerland Jan 25, 2008
Zecotek has developed a compact and cost-effective solid-state photo detector aimed at replacing the bulky and expensive PMTs presently used in a wide range of imaging applications such as PET (positron emission tomography) scanners, gamma cameras and high-energy nuclear physics. Zecotek's new MAPDs detect very small signals and are effective for photon counting. (CCNMatthews Press Releases)
Argonne's Blue Gene/P to Host Large Cadre of INCITE Researchers Jan 18, 2008
The gauge configurations will be used to determine a wide range of physical quantities that are important to high energy and nuclear physics research. -- Robert Minnich of Sandia National Laboratories was awarded 1 million hours to scale the Plan 9 distributed operating system on Blue Gene/P, measure the performance of applications of interest, and test all aspects of the operating system's environment in preparation for future computer systems with 10 million central processing units. (PR Newswire)
Hunt for clues in Turkish crash Dec 15, 2007
Also among the dead was noted nuclear physics professor Engin Arik. Cordoned off. (Yahoo News -- Turkey)
Physics and astronomy research face "catastrophic" cuts Dec 12, 2007
Space science, ground-based astronomy, nuclear physics and gravitational-wave detection will have to be "tensioned against each other from the available funding," he says. Comments. (Nature News Service)
Will N. Korea's Kim Come Clean? Dec 10, 2007
On the subjects of observation and nuclear physics, the question bouncing around for over 10 years has been whether North Korean leader Kim Jong-il has a highly enriched uranium (HEU) program, besides the plutonium one Pyongyang admits to. Now it is time to reveal the contents of the box. (Forbes)
Scientists Unravel Plants' Natural Defenses Nov 26, 2007
26, 2006) In a recent study, scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics, Utrecht University, Netherlands, and the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development for Northern Ireland, UK. (Oct. (Science Daily)
Hughes: Denial Of Due Process Nov 21, 2007
Prosecutors tried to deny bail to Jarwan because he had a degree in nuclear physics and suggested that he was capable of making a dirty bomb. but the judge, fortunately, agreed with Jarwan's lawyer that this was a ludicrous suggestion. (Zmag.org)
World's Smallest Double Slit Experiment Nov 12, 2007
10, 2006) Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg have visualised vibration and rotation in the nuclei of a hydrogen molecule as a quantum mechanical wave packet. What is. (Science Daily)
Smile, protons, you're on camera Nov 9, 2007
The experiment itself also harkens back to the early days of experimental nuclear physics in which visual information served as the raw data ... "It's perhaps the first time in modern nuclear physics that fundamentally new information about radioactive decay was captured in a picture taken by a digital camera," said Andreas Stolz, NSCL assistant professor and a coauthor on the paper ... "Usually, in nuclear physics experiments you have digitized data and several channels of information from... (EurekAlert!)
Does Western Espionage Exist? Nov 9, 2007
An international periodical, Nuclear Physics, was published in many countries in English. My wife was the editor of its edition in Russia, and their mailing address in Russia was the Lebedev Physics Institute, staffed by Soviet nuclear physicists, some of whom were world-known in nuclear physics, and headed by one of the most esteemed of them, Dmitry Skobeltsyn ... One day he announced at a meeting of his staffers that the studies in nuclear physics were over. (Newsmax)
* Yongbyon set to start disabling Nov 6, 2007
In the mid-1950s, North Korea signed a research agreement with Moscow under which hundreds of its scientists were trained in nuclear physics by the Soviets. The North later signed a similar cooperation agreement with China. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Writing home about nothing Oct 29, 2007
He traces the beginnings of his writing for a non-technical audience back to a nuclear physics conference in Georgia, then part of the Soviet Union, which he attended in 1976 ... The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard RhodesTells the story of atomic and nuclear physics in superb details and is extremely well written. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
How many neutrons can an atom hold? Oct 25, 2007
But it's harder to determine for heavier elements, whose neutron-rich isotopes don't hang about for long. And different nuclear physics theories don't agree with each other about where the drip line lies. For a given number of protons, a nucleus can hold a certain number of neutrons, says Sherrill. (Nature News Service)
Hearn tears into Williams over fish science plans Oct 19, 2007
The premier knows as much about the fishery as I know about nuclear physics ... "The premier knows as much about the fishery in Newfoundland as I know about nuclear physics. Let's get that on the table, to start," said Hearn, who said while some inshore stocks appear to be growing, the overall health of cod off Newfoundland's costs remain "in a state of concern.". (CBC - Newfoundland & Labrador)
Bachi Karkaria: Not As Easy As 123 Oct 14, 2007
As it is, the separation of this fissile isotope had reached the critical 90%, which, in nuclear physics, is enough for an explosion. As in the 1977 film, the 'Red Alert' had been sounded. (India Times, India)
DOE publishes update of plan: 'Facilities for the Future of Science: A 20-Year Outlook' Oct 13, 2007
The 2003 plan listed 28 new scientific facilities and upgrades of current facilities that will define scientific opportunities over the next 20 years in all fields of science supported by the Office of Science, including fusion energy, advanced scientific computation, materials science, biological and environmental science, high energy physics and nuclear physics. The facilities were ranked according to their scientific importance and readiness for construction, and they spanned scientific... (EurekAlert! -- Business News)
Future archiveA look back at 80 years of technology's cutting edge Sep 30, 2007
". He suggested that "suitable talent might be found among the demonstrators in the local electricity showrooms". This "delightfully phrased letter" elicited the response from the institution's Sheffield centre that the (male) honorary secretary there had indeed chosen two "girls". His (female) secretary added, "and I know that although he had some pleasure in doing this, it also caused him a lot of worry". Those lectures played to packed houses. The one in Portsmouth's Guildhall, for example,... (BBC News -- UK)
Eva Crane, 95, authority on bees Sep 17, 2007
Eva Crane, who earned a doctorate in nuclear physics and then abandoned the field to devote herself to expanding and spreading knowledge about bees as a researcher, historian, archivist, editor and author, died on Sept. 6 in Slough, England ... She completed her degree in two years, then earned master's degree in quantum mechanics and a doctorate in nuclear physics ... She took a post lecturing on nuclear physics at Sheffield University in 1941. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- World)
Nuclear physicists examine oxygen's limits Sep 14, 2007
The search for the maximum number of neutrons that can fit into a given element's nucleus lies at the forefront of nuclear physics research. NSCL beam physicist Thomas Baumann adjusts the Modular Neutron Array (MoNA). (EurekAlert!)
Saint's robes carbon dated Sep 5, 2007
"The request came directly from the Franciscan order," says Pier Andrea Mand; of the Italian National Institute of Nuclear Physics in Florence. He and his team took a few tiny samples from the robes and used a standard technique known as accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) to measure the amount of isotope carbon-14 in the cloth. (Nature News Service)
Dorm dining 101 Aug 30, 2007
It doesn't require a major in nuclear physics, either. If you can make ramen noodles, you can make a nice couscous. (The Daily Reflector)
Experiments the lab mimic supernovas Aug 29, 2007
"Astrophysicists tell us they need more information on the nuclear physics of these exotic isotopes," said Wiedenhver. "This type of physics has really taken off in the last five years because of facilities like this one.". (USA Today -- Tech)
FBI Uses Spyware To Track Bomb Hoax Jul 20, 2007
When the FBI traced the IP address of the e-mail and MySpace accounts, they were led to a hijacked computer in the National Institute of Nuclear Physics in Italy. Having reached a dead end, they determined that the next step was to send CIPAV to the e-mail address from which the bomb threats were sent. (Yahoo News -- Technology)
New tool to measure speeding nuclei is a fast-beam first Jul 19, 2007
In the study, NSCL users from the Institute for Nuclear Physics of the University of Cologne in Germany and Central Michigan University teamed with Krzysztof Starosta, NSCL assistant professor, and other MSU researchers to make a lifetime measurement of an excited state of germanium-64, Ge-64 ... It is very important to have a new method available to measure lifetimes of exotic nuclei, as from these lifetimes we learn the most about the quantal structure of atomic nuclei said Jan Jolie,... (EurekAlert!)
Argonne bid adds star power Jul 15, 2007
Walter F. Henning, director of Germany's premier nuclear physics laboratory, will return next month to Argonne, where he worked before the Germans recruited him earlier in this decade to oversee upgrades in that country's lab ... The other leading contender for this project is Michigan State University, which also has an existing nuclear physics lab. (Chicago Tribune)
Homestake Strikes Gold Again: NSF Selects Former Gold Mine as Lab Site LBNL, Jul. 10 Jul 11, 2007
"The Need to go DeepA number of scientific investigations require an underground environment -- the deeper the better. For example, there are questions important to the fields of astrophysics and physics that cannot be answered unless experiments are shielded from cosmic rays and other background radiation by thousands of feet of rock. Homestake is the deepest mine in the United States, reaching a depth of more than 8,000 feet. With over 375 miles of existing tunnels, it is ideally suited for... (University of California Newswire, CA)
School mired in claims of cheating Jul 9, 2007
You can put nuclear physics on a transcript and have a 400 on the SAT, and you ain't getting into Dartmouth. That's not gonna help my kids. (San Francisco Chronicle)
ATLAS Upgrade Allows Scientists To Reach Even Further For The Stars Jul 4, 2007
The cell provides a new way to generate intense beams of short-lived, exotic nuclear isotopes for basic research in nuclear physics and other sciences ... Funding comes from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Nuclear Physics. (Science Daily)
End of an era at HERA Jul 3, 2007
The HERA ring has provided these particles and their anti-particle equivalents for use in particle and nuclear physics experiments, but is now being shut down to make way for new scientific facilities at the DESY Laboratory near Hamburg in Germany ... The Council has a broad science portfolio including Astronomy, Particle Physics, Particle Astrophysics, Nuclear Physics, Space Science, Synchrotron Radiation, Neutron Sources and High Power Lasers. (EurekAlert! -- Business News)
IBM, Sun Aim to Set 'Petaflop' Mark Jun 27, 2007
"With Blue Gene/P, we are giving entities like government labs, universities and large industrial customers a system that can run even longer simulations and do more to explore areas like nuclear physics, climate models and astronomical studies.". The Blue Gene/P system looks to offer three times the computing power of IBM's previous Blue Gene supercomputer. (eWeek)
Sealed envelopes hidden for 70 years reveal nuclear secrets Jun 2, 2007
The publication of James Chadwick's paper, The Existence of a Neutron, kick-started the field of nuclear physics. Keith Moore, head of library and archives at the Royal Society, said: "The papers have only recently been discovered as part of our ongoing programme to catalogue the Society's archives. "The documents have been sealed for so long it only seemed right to wait for an occasion to open them. (BBC News -- Science)
A.D. 100 Billion: Big Bang Goes Bye-Bye Jun 1, 2007
Krauss says the motions of stars or planets will probably lead them to general relativity, the modern theory of gravity, and nuclear physics will tell them that those stars have existed for billions of years. They will not realize, however, that their visible universe is only one galaxy cluster in a vast but dilute sea of galaxies. (Scientific American)
Physicists Plan To Pop Protons May 22, 2007
Thomas Hacker, a research assistant professor in Purdue University's Discovery Park Cyber Center and with Information Technology at Purdue (ITaP), says the particle physics collider experiment taking place at the European nuclear physics facility CERN will involve scientists around the world. "Researchers usually have to be in the same location as the instrument to access to the data," Hacker says. (Science Daily)
Carter today: Didn't mean Bush was 'worst' May 22, 2007
The Swamp - Chicago Tribune - Blogs. Originally posted: May 21, 2007Carter today: Didn't mean Bush was 'worst. (Chicago Tribune)
Three alumni in prestigious group of researchers honored by the DOE May 11, 2007
Marc Kamionkowski was cited in the high-energy and nuclear physics category for his theoretical analyses demonstrating that precise observations of the cosmic microwave background can lead to deep understanding of the origin and evolution of the universe, thereby motivating a series of increasingly precise cosmological experiments. Alivisatos is the Larry and Diane Boch professor of nanotechnology at the University of California, Berkeley, and associate laboratory director for physical sciences... (Univeristy of Chicago Chronicle, IL)
ALP to vote on uranium mines policy Apr 29, 2007
"There are options, quite clearly options I think, of having an international atomic energy agency engaged with international companies, international governments making Adelaide a centre for nuclear physics study and having a waste repository in South Australia," he said. Related Stories. (ABC News Online, Australia -- Australia/Local)
Shalom: Polity Interview Apr 29, 2007
It doesnt mean that everybodys doing the same work if youre a nuclear physicist, you might be doing nuclear physics part of the time, but youd also be doing other stuff that is rote or menial. People who are working in factories would also be doing stuff that involves planning or thinking or using their brains. (Zmag.org)
New Materials For Making 'Spintronic' Devices Apr 27, 2007
Such relativistic particles are studied at Brookhaven at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), a nuclear physics facility where scientists are trying to understand the fundamental properties and forces of matter ... This work was funded by the Office of Basic Energy Sciences and the Office of Nuclear Physics, both within the U.S. Department of Energy s Office of Science. (Science Daily)
WIU physicist part of international experiment Apr 17, 2007
D. in physics from Texas Aersity in 1998, has done research on particle and nuclear physics for more than a decade at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in south suburban Chicago. He has held post-doctoral positions at Los Alamos National Laboratory and the University of Cincinnati before coming to Western Illinois University in fall 2004. (Macomb Journal, IL)
Hotter than expected neutron star surfaces help explain superburst frequency Apr 14, 2007
"This is the first model that goes into some reasonable detail about the nuclear physics that occur in the crusts of accreting neutron stars," said Hendrik Schatz, NSCL professor and co-author of a paper that will be published in The Astrophysical Journal in June. One of Schatz's co-authors, NSCL assistant professor Ed Brown, will present the results April 17 at a meeting of the American Physical Society in Jacksonville, Fla. (EurekAlert!)
Where has all the antimatter gone? Apr 12, 2007
The Council has a broad science portfolio including Astronomy, Particle Physics, Particle Astrophysics, Nuclear Physics, Space Science, Synchrotron Radiation, Neutron Sources and High Power Lasers. In addition the Council will manage and operate three internationally renowned laboratories. (EurekAlert!)
Camel's cheese maker wants to export Apr 10, 2007
Our goal is Europe," added the company chief, who is in her 50s and speaks Mauritania's official languages French and Arabic fluently. Abeiderrahmane opened her dairy business in 1989 in this largely desert country that measures twice the size of former colonial power France but counts only 3.1 million inhabitants. Until then, Mauritania had been dependent on imported milk. She soon started fishing for outlets for her camel's milk cheese, which resembles the soft French round cheese camembert... (iAfrica.com)
A new dawn in scientific research Apr 4, 2007
The Council's remit will cover all the programmes, activities and facilities previously operated by CCLRC and PPARC, plus responsibility for research in nuclear physics which has been transferred from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EPSRC ... The Council has a wide ranging science portfolio including astronomy, particle physics, particle astrophysics, nuclear physics, space science, synchrotron radiation, neutron sources and high power lasers ... The Council has a broad... (EurekAlert! -- Business News)
'Cold Fusion' Rebirth? Symposium Explores Low Energy Nuclear Reactions Mar 31, 2007
In a series of experiments, a standard radiation detector used in nuclear physics research was used to record evidence of high energy atomic particles, providing physical evidence to suggest that a nuclear event had occurred in the LENR experiments. Efforts are ongoing to verify these results. (Science Daily)
For the sake of China's "artificial sun" Mar 22, 2007
In 1965, the oldest Chinese fusion research unit C the Institute of Nuclear Physics C was relocated to province. After being renamed several times and relocated twice, the Southwestern Institute of Physics was formally established. (People's Daily Online, China)
Make a million| Mar 20, 2007
If you were planning a career in nuclear physics or actuarial science, knowledge of these subjects may have come in handy, but for most of us it was probably an exercise in futility. It is an amazing fact that in the entire 14 or so years we spend in school, we are rarely taught about the magic of compound interest. (iAfrica.com)
Why is a beard mandatory in folk music, yet not in any other genre? Mar 17, 2007
In nuclear physics there is a process called pair production. This event occurs when gamma photons of a minimum energy of 1. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Physicists Wipe Away Complexity For A Clearer View Of Heavy Nuclei Mar 17, 2007
Despite advances in experimental nuclear physics, the most detailed probing of atomic nuclei still requires heavy doses of advanced nuclear theory ... The advance, which slashes computational time from days or weeks to minutes or hours, may help address one of the most important questions in nuclear physics today: what is the structure of heavy atomic nuclei ... "This gives us a way to start with particles, in this case nucleons, build an equation and then solve it -- and to do so in a way that... (Science Daily)
Robot age poses ethical dilemma Mar 8, 2007
This ethical roadmap has been assembled by researchers who believe that robotics will soon come under the same scrutiny as disciplines such as nuclear physics and Bioengineering. A draft of the proposals said: "In the 21st Century humanity will coexist with the first alien intelligence we have ever come into contact with - robots. "It will be an event rich in ethical, social and economic problems. (BBC News -- Asia-Pacific)
A Warming World Mar 5, 2007
" Chief in Chu's campaign is an unprecedented research pact reached recently between UC Berkeley, oil industry giant BP, the Lawrence Berkeley lab and the University of Illinois. Chu's role in promoting the clout of the closely aligned research programs at the lab and UC Berkeley helped persuade BP to pick the campus for its $500 million biofuels institute. Nearly $400 million in new lab space will expand energy-related molecular work centered at Lawrence Berkeley that involves a cast of... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Science)
