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In January, 2008 the Minnesota “Heavy Flavor” group led by Professors Ron Poling and Dan Cronin-Hennessy joined the BESIII experiment at the Institute of High Energy Physics in Beijing, China. This expanded an already fruitful program of collaborative research in high energy physics between the United States and the People’s Republic of China that was initiated by T.D. Lee, “Pief” Panofsky and Bob Wilson in the 1970’s.

News

Kakalios video wins regional Emmy award

The University News Service video "The Science of Watchmen" featuring Professor James Kakalios, which has received more than 1.5 million views on YouTube, received a regional Emmy Award in the "Advanced Media: Arts/Entertainment" category. More »

Neutrinos on Display

While a particle physicist may tell you that neutrinos are fiendishly difficult to observe, the public visibility of neutrinos in Minnesota has changed dramatically with the approval of more than $40M of stimulus funding for the NOvA project. More »

CLEO collaboration submits 500th paper

The CLEO collaboration has recently submitted its 500th publication to a peer-reviewed journal. This is the largest number of papers of any collaboration in the history of elementary particle physics. More »

LIGO results set new limits on gravitational waves

Results from LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) Scientific Collaboration and the Virgo Collaboration have set the most stringent limits yet on gravitational waves. Gravitational waves are ripples in the fabric of space and time predicted by Einstein's theory of General Relativity. More »


Outreach

Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU)

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REU provides a working research environment for undergraduate students. More »


Recent Publications

Thickness Dependent Phase Behavior of Antiferroelectric Liquid Crystal Films

by LiDong Pan, Shun Wang, C. S. Hsu, and C. C. Huang in PRL 103, 187802 (2009). More »

Magnetic-Field-Induced Superconducting State in Zn Nanowires Driven in the Normal State by an Electric Current

by Yu Chen, S. D. Snyder, and A. M. Goldman in Physical Review Letters 103, 127002 (2009). More »

The Local Enhancement of Radiation Dose from Photons of MeV Energies

by Ahmad Alkhatib, Yoichi Watanabe and John H. Broadhurst in Med. Phys. 36 (8) August 2009. More »

A Universal Relationship Between Magnetic Resonance and Superconducting Gap in Unconventional Superconductors

by G. Yu1, Y. Li1, E. M. Motoyama1 & M. Greven2,3 Nature Physics 18 October 2009 More »


Calendar

Monday, November 9th 2009
12:15 pm:
3:35 pm:
Student Journal Club in 140 Physics
Tuesday, November 10th 2009
12:20 pm:
12:20 pm:
Space Physics Seminar in 143 Physics
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