Scientists Try to Debunk Shroud of Turin Oct 7, 2009
Group Funded by Italian Atheists, Agnostics Claims Experiment "Clearly Indicates" Shroud Was Man Made. In this Aug. 12, 2000 file photo, The Holy Shroud, a 14 foot-long linen revered by some as the burial cloth of Jesus, is shown at the Cathedral of Turin, Italy. (CBS News -- Sci/Tech)
First lab blast successful Sep 24, 2009
The copper will be used to construct an experiment to detect an extremely rare phenomenon called neutrinoless double beta decay. The project. (Rapid City Journal, SD)
To understand the universe, science calls on the ultrasmall Aug 17, 2009
Elliott, for example, hopes to determine its mass using a technique called double beta decay. Previous research has determined a 'relative mass scale' of the neutrino, but a precise measurement is necessary to better understand the universe's development of structure, Elliott says. (EurekAlert!)
Ytterbium's Broken Symmetry: Largest Parity Violations Ever Observed In An Atom Jul 24, 2009
Protons on their own last forever, apparently, but a free neutron falls apart in about 15 minutes; it turns into a proton by emitting an electron and an antineutrino, a process called beta decay. What makes beta decay possible is the weak force ... When certain kinds of nuclei such as cobalt-60 are placed in a magnetic field to polarize them line them up and then allowed to undergo beta decay, they are more likely to emit electrons from their south poles than from their north poles. (Science Daily)
Officials formally dedicate Sanford Lab in Lead Jun 23, 2009
The second experiment, into a phenomenon called neutrinoless double beta decay, will be conducted by a collaboration that includes 19 institutions from four countries. Both sets of experiments, like the Davis research, require labs deep underground to protect them from cosmic radiation. (Rapid City Journal, SD)
Precision Measurement Of W Boson Mass Portends Stricter Limits For Higgs Particle Mar 18, 2009
The particle, which is about 85 times heavier than a proton, enables radioactive beta decay and makes the sun shine. The Standard Model also predicts the existence of the Higgs boson, the origin of mass for all elementary particles. (Science Daily)
