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Ideon Technologies Joins Consortium for Laser-Driven Muon Imaging

Insider Brief Ideon Technologies, the global leader in muon tomography for subsurface intelligence, is participating in a landmark international research consortium that will attem...

Neutrino Lasers Fail Fundamental Physics

MIT researchers find that recoil and neutrinos’ fermionic nature prevent the quantum amplification needed to produce a directional neutrino laser beam. A proposed technology for ge...

To Lase or Not to Lase: The Question of Neutrino Superradiance

Author(s): Ana Maria Rey, James K. Thompson, and Haoqing ZhangTwo studies find that fundamental quantum constraints rule out a previously proposed neutrino-laser scheme.[Physics 19...

Lab-Based Plasmas Shed Light on Stellar Mystery

Author(s): Susan CurtisUsing high-power lasers to drive highly magnetized plasmas, researchers have probed the stellar processes that control coronal mass ejections.[Physics 19, 12...

The Milky Way's Most Powerful Particle Accelerator

Astronomers have conclusively identified a source of the highest energy cosmic ray protons in the Milky Way, solving a long standing puzzle near the star Altair. By combining gamma...

New research shows a neutrino laser is impossible

Due to physical and fundamental limitations, an earlier proposal for producing laserlike beams of neutrinos cannot be achieved, scientists report.

Ultrastable laser pulses bring control of individual electrons closer

Laser system delivers 200,000 nearly identical infrared pulses per second with exceptional phase stability, opening new routes to control electron motion.

A Mystery Object in the Milky Way Is Blasting Out Particles 100 Times More Powerful Than the LHC

The cosmic accelerator can push protons beyond one quadrillion electric volts.

GPS can't work everywhere, so scientists test navigation using cosmic rays

Japanese scientists are testing a new navigation system using cosmic ray muons. This system can work in places where GPS signals are unavailable, like underground. Muons can penetr...

A source of extremely high-energy particles in the Milky Way identified

An accelerator of the highest-energy protons in our galaxy has been identified; it could help scientists better understand the nature of these fast-moving particles that fill the s...

A source of extremely high-energy particles in the Milky Way identified

Cosmic rays are made primarily of protons with a few electrons sprinkled in, and they can reach energies even higher than what human-made accelerators can produce. Considering huma...

Berkeley Lab-Led Project Secures Funding to Develop a Transportable Muon Imager

Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), in partnership with Ideon Technologies, has received fundi...

Optical Magnus effect observed for the first time in a trapped ion

Physicists directly observe the optical Magnus effect for the first time, revealing a nanoscale shift in laser–ion interactions that could affect qubit control.

Quantum Experiment Breaks a Long-Standing X-Ray Energy Limit

An experiment by researchers at the University of California San Diego and TU Wien has revealed a new quantum regime that generates coherent X-rays at higher energies than conventi...

Radioactive Molecules Promise Probe of New Physics

Author(s): Susan CurtisA tabletop method for producing cold radioactive molecules enables precise measurement of their properties and could uncover violations of fundamental symmet...

A Powerful Cosmic Accelerator Has Been Confirmed in the Milky Way

Scientists have identified an accelerator that produces the highest-energy protons in our galaxy, a finding that could clarify the nature of the fast-moving particles filling the s...

A New Theory of Muon Spin Relaxation

Author(s): Charles DayA technique for determining the magnetic structure of materials gets a theoretical makeover that can cope with nonrandom, temporally correlated fluctuations.[...

Unpacking Particle Showers with Machine Learning

Author(s): Samuel JarmanA new AI-powered event-processing algorithm is being readied to cope with the torrent of data that will stream from the Large Hadron Collider upgrade.[Physi...

Gas becomes an ultrafast lens for steering extreme ultraviolet light

Researchers turn helium gas into an ultrafast optical element that can steer and reshape intense extreme ultraviolet laser pulses in space and spectrum.

'Electron lighthouse' illuminates new physics

Researchers have created a device that enables them to control the flow of electrons through a semiconductor using only laser light - no electrical power source required.

Experimental realisation of percolation with coupled lasers

Researchers use 100 coupled lasers to physically realise percolation and uncover how nonlinearities alter collective lasing behaviour The post Experimental realisation of percolati...

Scientists Discover Extreme Acceleration Inside a Nuclear Fireball

Simulations reveal some of the strongest accelerations ever produced on Earth, opening new avenues for QCD research. When atomic nuclei smash together at almost the speed of light,...

Particle Physics Equipment

Китайские астрономы обнаружили мощнейший во Вселенной ускоритель частиц — он в 4400 раз превосходит БАК

Китайская обсерватория LHAASO обнаружила в Млечном Пути источник, способный разгонять протоны как минимум до 30 ПэВ (петаэлектронвольт). Им оказалась система Лебедь X-3, расположен...