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MINOS, or the Main Injector Neutrino Oscillation Search, is now on its third phase of data collection. According to Professor Marvin Marshak, the Fermilab Main Injector accelerator has now aimed more than 5 x 1020 protons at the target in the neutrino beam line. The protons create pions and kaons, which then decay to create the neutrino beam. MINOS has now observed more than 1,000 neutrino interactions in the Far Detector at Soudan MN. “MINOS is clearly in its precision measuring phase." |
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CMS observes First Collisions at LHC
After 15 years of design and construction, the first proton-proton collisions were produced in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) today. Collision observations were made in all four detectors located around the accelerator ring, including the CMS detector. The image attached to this article shows the flows of particles produced by one of the first collisions, as measured by CMS. More »
Physics Force at Northrop
The Physics Force will return to Northrop Auditorium for its popular series of January shows. There will be two public performances this year, Thursday, January 7th at 7:00 p.m. and Sunday January 10th at 2:00 p.m., which are free and open to the public with no reservations needed. More »
Be a geek and a nerd: Jim Kakalios at Convocation 2009
Professor James Kakalios delivered a speech to the freshman Class of 2013 at Convocation 2009. He described the secret of making the most of one's eduction as learning to be simultaneously a geek and a nerd. You can watch the speech on Youtube.
Documentary highlights positive impact of NOvA on northern Minnesota
The NOvA collaboration is a University of Minnesota physics project. A short documentary put out by Fermilab and the Department of Energy highlights the positive impact that the NOvA project has had on the small community of Orr in northern Minnesota. More »
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 »
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 »
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Physics Force
The Physics Force is a troop of physics teachers who perform large scale entertaining physics demonstrations. 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). Highlighted with a Synopsis on the Physics website by the editor. 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 »