physics laboratories

A few weeks ago I mentioned the Subatomic Smackdown, which will reach fever pitch today. Physics labs around the world are championing their favourites for the title of “Most Awesome Subatomic Particle”. Today is the big day for voting by the public and you cast your ballot for either the proton, neutron, ...

A top physicist says the construction of a "factory" to produce Higgs boson particles is a priority for the science community. In an exclusive interview, Nigel Lockyer, head of America's premier particle physics lab, said studying the Higgs could hasten major discoveries. He said momentum in the physics ...

Through student-led organizations and mentoring, faculty research on gender bias and stereotypes in physics, and other projects, Miami's physics ... for our discipline, we must find ways to work together using practices that support inclusion rather exclusion in our classrooms and labs,” say the authors.

He soon started working on accelerators at the university's High-Energy Physics Lab, and delayed his thesis for a few years to help build an accelerator in France. After less than a year at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, he returned to Stanford in 1962 to work at the nascent Stanford Linear Accelerator ...

A team of U.S. and German scientists has used a system of large magnetic "trim" coils designed and delivered by the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) to achieve high performance in the latest round of experiments on the Wendelstein 7-X (W7-X) stellarator.

Geneseo forged an agreement with the University of Rochester in the 1990s that allows Geneseo students to use Rochester's laser energetics lab. ... the department is a busy, active place with people working in the labs and learning by doing,” said Kurt Fletcher, a longtime physics professor at Geneseo.

“We've quantified the clogging dynamics of soft objects for the first time and identified the parameters that seem to explain why it's completely opposite physics to that of hard objects,” says Eric Weeks, a physics professor at Emory University whose lab conducted the research. “One surprising result is that, ...

A graduate student noticed the fire and called the Department of Public Safety at 1:39 a.m. Firefighters arrived on campus from the town of Princeton, Princeton Junction, the Princeton Plasma Plasma Physics Laboratory, Plainsboro, and Rocky Hill, according to a University statement.The building was ...

"It's amazingly good news," says Thom Mason, vice president for laboratory operations at Battelle in Columbus and a former director of Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee. "This is beyond anything I expected." Battelle helps run six of the 10 DOE national labs run by the Office of Science, including ...

A prototype of their flowmeter was successfully tested at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory. Their device, a rotating Lorentz-force flowmeter, won first place among nine teams competing in the 13th annual Innovation Forum on March 14. The competition was tough. Other teams displayed methods to ...

In a physics lab at the University of Nottingham—close to the Sherwood forest of legendary English outlaw Robin Hood—she and her colleagues will ... Around the world, astrophysicists can be found in labs, developing ever more sophisticated set-ups using sound waves that travel just like light waves in ...

Image collage - Berkeley Lab Physics Photowalk on May 16, 2018. The U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) is offering a special tour to photographers on Wednesday, May 16, during a local event that is part of a Global Physics Photowalk 2018 competition.

“Of 750 institutions offering undergraduate degrees in physics, less than half provide advanced laboratories to their students,” he said. “But the advanced lab is a critical educational experience for a physics major.” A quick tour of the food truck reveals advanced experiments in areas such as diode laser ...

And Sarita's students, Spanish-speaking Latinos attending a high-poverty school, are an even unlikelier bunch to catch in a physics lab. Physics is widely considered to be a building block for a range of STEM disciplines— science, technology, engineering and math — and taking the course in high school ...

When it comes to quantum mechanics, I try to avoid writing about purely theoretical results. This is especially true of quantum computing, where, in the not-too-distant past, every researcher would put their names to papers describing a new way to make a quantum computer. Then people started playing ...

Homogeneous 2D Fermi gases have long fascinated theoretical physicists, but creating a real system to study in the laboratory had eluded researchers. Now, Klaus Hueck, Henning Moritz and colleagues at the University of Hamburg have created such a gas and also confirmed several theoretical ...

Here at Physics World we're planning to publish special issues later this year on time (in July) and on SI units and measurement (in November). So to find out more about the latest work in these fields, we decided to accept a long-standing invitation to visit the National Physical Laboratory in Teddington, just ...

The initial project is called Watchman, for WATer CHerenkov Monitor of ANtineutrinos, and will be built by a large collaboration between researchers in the United States and United Kingdom, led by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. UC Berkeley and the Berkeley Lab are members of the ...