Chemist named director of Lawrence Berkeley lab Nov 21, 2009
Alivisatos, 50, is the laboratory's seventh director since it was founded in 1931 to focus largely on high energy physics, and he has been the laboratory's interim director since Nobel Prize-winning physicist Steven Chu became President Obama's secretary of energy in January. In the past year, the laboratory has received $220 million in federal stimulus funds, and its scientists have intensified their research into solving the world's increasingly acute problems of energy and the environment,... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Science)
Large Hadron Collider: Beams Are Back on at World's Most Powerful Particle Accelerator Nov 21, 2009
"The LHC is a machine unprecedented in size, in complexity, and in the scope of the international collaboration that has built it over the last 15 years," said Dennis Kovar, U.S. Department of Energy Associate Director of Science for High Energy Physics. "I congratulate the scientists and engineers that have worked to get the LHC back up and running, and look forward to the discoveries to come.". (Science Daily)
US physicists propose astrophysics goals Oct 28, 2009
Cosmic-ray experiments would suffer, unless budgets increased, under a list of priorities for high-energy physics given to the US Department of Energy (DOE) by independent advisers last week ... The DOE takes the advice "very seriously", says Dennis Kovar, the agency s associate director of science for high-energy physics. (Scientific American)
With stimulus funds SU's physics department avoids research cuts Oct 22, 2009
The goal is to test hypotheses of high-energy physics. Findings should explain what happened to antimatter after the Big Bang. (Daily Orange, NY)
Video Camera That Records At The Speed Of Thought Oct 15, 2009
There are dozens of potential applications in fields as diverse as high-energy physics, entertainment and automotive diagnostics. The Megaframe project received funding from the FET-Open scheme of the EU s Sixth Framework Programme for research. (Science Daily)
RIKEN Scientists Suggest in Quantum Simulators, One System to Simulate Another Oct 6, 2009
Such quantum simulation could allow researchers to tackle problems in fields such as condensed matter physics, high-energy physics, atomic physics, quantum chemistry or cosmology. It could be implemented using quantum computers, but also with simpler, analog devices which would require less control, and therefore, would be easier to construct. (JCN Network, Japan)
Hooked on writing Oct 3, 2009
(His first degree was in nuclear engineering. The additional high-level graduate courses were in quantum field theory and theoretical physics which he describes as "great fun."). (Seacoast New Hampshire)
were collecting too much data Sep 1, 2009
High-energy physics experiments acquire huge datasets that may not be superseded by new and better measurements for decades or centuries. Researchers recently conferred on. (Harper's Magazine)
UH ocean project involves nuclear subatomic particles Aug 25, 2009
"The difficulty is cost. It's in a category where most high-energy physics experiments end up: costing lots of money." ... "The difficulty is cost. It's in a category where most high-energy physics experiments end up: costing lots of money.". (Honolulu Star-Bulletin)
To Understand The Universe, Science Calls On The Ultrasmall Aug 19, 2009
29, 2005) In the universe of high-energy physics, the smallest building blocks of matter (or anti-matter) make the biggest news. Take subatomic particles, for instance. (Science Daily)
Cosmology's Best Standard Candles Get Even Better May 23, 2009
SNfactory member Stephen Bailey, formerly at Berkeley Lab and now at the Laboratory of Nuclear and High-Energy Physics (LPNHE) in Paris, France, searched the spectra of 58 Type Ia supernovae in the SNfactory s dataset and found a key spectroscopic ratio ... In high-energy physics, the field I trained in, we re often dealing with huge datasets and looking for whatever we can find. (Science Daily)
Single Electron Captured In Tunable Carbon Nanotube Quantum Dot May 16, 2009
This method of tunnelling emphasises the close relationship between the physics of semiconductors, such as those in this research, and high-energy physics. The research took place at the Kavli Institute for Nanoscience of Delft University of Technology. (Science Daily)
Austria to pull out of CERN May 12, 2009
BEIJING, May 11 (Xinhuanet) -- Austria is contemplating withdrawing from CERN, Europe's premier high-energy physics laboratory, in order to use its high cost share to fund fields where there is more impact for businesses and universities. Austria joined the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in 1959. (Xinhuanet, China)
Cloud Computing Helps Scientists Run High Energy Physics Experiments Mar 26, 2009
25, 2009) A novel system is enabling high energy physicists at CERN in Switzerland, to make production runs that integrate their existing pool of distributed computers with dynamic resources in "science clouds.". The integration was achieved by leveraging two mechanisms: the Nimbus Context Broker, developed by computer scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago, and a portable software environment developed at CERN.. (Science Daily)
New Experiments Constrain Higgs Mass Mar 23, 2009
The outstanding performance of the Tevatron and CDF and DZero together have produced this important result, said Dennis Kovar, Associate Director of the Office of Science for High Energy Physics at the U.S. Department of Energy. We're looking forward to further Tevatron constraints on the Higgs mass. (Science Daily)
The Mind Behind the Web Mar 13, 2009
After obtaining a physics degree, and several stints as a software engineer, in 1984 Berners-Lee took a programming job at , the mammoth high-energy physics lab in Geneva that straddles the Franco-Swiss border. It was difficult for him to keep track of CERN's 5,000 scientists from far-flung countries, their interrelated projects, and their incompatible computers. (Scientific American)
Editor's Mailbag (March 9) Mar 12, 2009
Illusions wrote on Mar 10, 2009 1:04 PM:" No EDS, once again you are passing on lies. The Swedish tax rate is around 50% and that includes local, canton, and federal tax. Those taxes pay for everything...defense, schools, various entitlements, economic development, and so on. Only, a fraction of that 50 % goes to health care. The average cost/person is estimated to be $ 3,000 in Sweden and close to $ 8,000 in the US in the current fiscal year.Actually, a lot of international banking types do... (Albany Democrat-Herald, OR)
From the archive: Webbed fingers Mar 11, 2009
The web's technology was created in 1989 by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN, Europe's high-energy physics laboratory, to help researchers cope with the huge quantities of data thrown out by their particle accelerators. It worked, so Mr Berners-Lee, with CERN'S permission, made the software freely available over the Internet. (The Economist)
Research team co-led by UC Riverside physicist observes production of single-top-quarks Mar 10, 2009
High-energy physics focuses on what makes up the world, and what holds it together. Its Standard Model is a comprehensive theory that explains the interactions between all fundamental elementary particles. (EurekAlert!)
Rare Single Top Quark Discovered In Collider Mar 10, 2009
"Observation of the single top quark production is an important milestone for the Tevatron program," said Dr. Dennis Kovar, Associate Director of the Office of Science for High Energy Physics at the U.S. Department of Energy. "Furthermore, the highly sensitive and successful analysis is an important step in the search for the Higgs.". (Science Daily)
'Doomsday Machine' Suddenly Has American Rival Feb 25, 2009
"This has been the holy grail of high energy physics for the last 30 years," Joe Lykken, a senior scientist at Fermilab in the Chicago suburb of Batavia, said Wednesday. Just months ago, it appeared that evidence of the Higgs would be found by scientists at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) manning the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) not those at Fermilab. (Fox News)
Fusion future Feb 17, 2009
Professor Brian Cox is affiliated to Manchester University's high energy physics group. Bookmark with. (BBC News -- Science)
'Petascale computing' may improve storm predictions, AAAS Annual Meeting speakers report Feb 15, 2009
But researchers also use computing grids -- linked processors at dozens of computer centers around the globe -- to store and analyze huge amounts of data in disciplines such as high-energy physics. And computing also is moving into the era of "the Cloud," with information processing and applications hosted in cyberspace rather than on specific processors and silicon racks. (EurekAlert!)
Highlights of compromise economic stimulus plan Feb 12, 2009
6 billion research in areas such as climate science, biofuels, high-energy physics and nuclear physics. HOMELAND SECURITY. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- World)
The puzzle of mean temps Feb 7, 2009
Illusions wrote on Feb 5, 2009 12:30 PM:" Well, Steve, if the universe had no beginning then we can put an end to all the silliness surrounding creationism. Maybe the static universe does have some merit.So is it string theory you don't understand, does the expansion rate tof the universe give you fits? Star and planet formation got you down? Speed of light troubling? 14 billion too big a number to deal with? Is it a high energy physics thing? You say that experimental evidence is not correctly... (Albany Democrat-Herald, OR)
