Physicists from the ATLAS and CMS collaborations at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider have observed the Higgs boson decaying into a pair of bottom quarks (H→ bb–). This elusive interaction is predicted to make up almost 60% of the Higgs boson decays. The finding is consistent with the hypothesis that the …
Read More »Physicists Demonstrate ‘Teleportation’ of Quantum Gate between Two Qubits
A team of scientists at Yale University has experimentally demonstrated one of the key steps in building the architecture for quantum computers — the ‘teleportation’ of a quantum gate between two logical qubits, on demand. A chip designed to operate as a 128-qubit superconducting adiabatic quantum optimization processor. Image credit: …
Read More »Japanese Physicists Generate Strongest Magnetic Field Ever Achieved Indoors
Physicists from the Institute for Solid State Physics at the University of Tokyo, Japan, have recorded the largest magnetic field ever generated indoors — a whopping 1,200 T (tesla). Nakamura et al record highest magnetic field ever achieved indoors. Image credit: Windell Oskay / CC BY 2.0. “Magnetic fields are …
Read More »CERN Physicists Discover Two New Particles
Physicists from CERN’s Large Hadron Collider beauty (LHCb) experiment have found two never-before-seen particles, as well as hints of another new particle, in high-energy proton collisions. The LHCb magnet. Image credit: CERN. The newly-discovered particles, named Σb(6097)+ and Σb(6097)–, are predicted by the quark model, and belong to the same …
Read More »Nuclear Pasta: Exotic Substance in Neutron Stars’ Crust May Be Universe’s Strongest Material
An international team of researchers from McGill University, California Institute of Technology and Indiana University has calculated the strength of nuclear pasta — extremely dense material deep inside the crust of neutron stars. The results, published in the journal Physical Review Letters, show that nuclear pasta may be the strongest …
Read More »‘Nuclear Pasta’ Inside Neutron Stars Is Strongest Material in Universe
The physics at work inside a neutron star can be mind-bogglingly complex. The neutrons that are well-understood in the rest of the universe do strange things when exposed to such incredible pressure. A new analysis of this so-called “nuclear pasta” suggests matter inside a neutron star is the strongest material …
Read More »The Large Hadron Collider Came Online 10 Years Ago Today
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the most complex machine ever built by humanity. It took thousands of scientists from more than 100 countries to make the LHC a reality, and it became a reality exactly 10 years ago today. That’s when CERN completed the first full proton beam circulation inside …
Read More »Physicists May Have Detected the Remains of Black Holes From Another Universe
The ghostly remains of long-dead black holes from another universe may be lurking in the depths of our own space-time continuum. That’s the conclusion of a new study from a group of scientists that include notes Hawking collaborator Roger Penrose. The researchers surveyed the cosmic background radiation, identifying spots that …
Read More »Stanford Researchers Build AI Directly Into Camera Optics
Until recently, cameras were exclusively designed to create images for humans — for fun, for art, and for documenting history. With the rapid growth of robots as well as various other kinds of machines and vehicles that need to observe and learn from their environment, many cameras are dedicated to …
Read More »Experiment Provides Further Insights into Higgs Boson Physics
A new experiment by physicists at the University of Bonn, Germany, has achieved a Higgs-like state in a system composed of ultracold atoms. Excitation spectra of the Higgs-like state: (a) excitation spectra of the Higgs-like state for different interaction strengths, 1/(kFa); the different levels of background condensate fraction are due …
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