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A New Piece in the Matter–Antimatter Puzzle
aOn March 24, 2025 at the annual Rencontres de Moriond conference taking place in La Thuile, Italy, the LHCb collaboration at CERN reported a new milestone in our understanding of the subtle yet profound differences between matter and antimatter. In its analysis of large… Read More - Research News
Researchers Play a Microscopic Game of Darts with Melted Gold
Sometimes, what seems like a fantastical or improbable chain of events is just another day at the office for a physicist. In a recent experiment by University of Maryland researchers at the Laboratory for Physical Sciences, a scene played out that would be right… Read More - Research News
IceCube Search for Extremely High-energy Neutrinos Contributes to Understanding of Cosmic Rays
Neutrinos are chargeless, weakly interacting particles that are able to travel undeflected through the cosmos. The IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole searches for the sources of these astrophysical neutrinos in order to understand the origin of high-energy particles called cosmic rays and,… Read More - Research News
Twisted Light Gives Electrons a Spinning Kick
It’s hard to tell when you’re catching some rays at the beach, but light packs a punch. Not only does a beam of light carry energy, it can also carry momentum. This includes linear momentum, which is what makes a speeding train hard to… Read More - Research News
Repurposing Qubit Tech to Explore Exotic Superconductivity
Decades of quantum research are now being transformed into practical technologies, including the superconducting circuits that are being used in physics research and built into small quantum computers by companies like IBM and Google. The established knowledge and technical infrastructure are allowing researchers to harness quantum technologies in… Read More - Research News
New Design Packs Two Qubits into One Superconducting Junction
Quantum computers are potentially revolutionary devices and the basis of a growing industry. However, their technology isn’t standardized yet, and researchers are still studying the physics behind the diverse ways to build these quantum devices. Even the most basic building blocks of a quantum… Read More - Research News
HAWC Finds High-Energy Gamma-Ray Emissions from Microquasar V4641 Sagittarii
A new study in Nature, “Ultra-high-energy gamma-ray bubble around microquasar V4641 Sgr," has revealed a groundbreaking discovery by researchers from the High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) observatory: TeV gamma-ray emissions from V4641 Sagittarii (V4641 Sgr), a binary system composed of a black hole and a main sequence… Read More - Research News
Nobel Prize Celebrates Interplay of Physics and AI
On October 8, the Nobel Prize in physics was awarded to John Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton for their foundational discoveries and inventions that have enabled artificial neural networks to be used for machine learning—a widely used form of AI. The award highlights how… Read More - Research News
High Altitude Water Cherenkov Observatory Sheds Light on Origin of Galactic Cosmic Rays
HAWC observes Ultra-High Energy gamma rays confirming Galactic Center as a source of Ultra-High Energy cosmic ray protons in the Milky Way The High-Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Observatory, located on the slopes of the Sierra Negra volcano in Mexico, has achieved a groundbreaking milestone… Read More
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Breakthrough Prize Awarded to CERN Experiments On April 5, 2025, the CMS, LHCb, ALICE and ATLAS collaborations at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN were honored with the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics by the Breakthrough Prize Foundation. The prize is awarded to the four collaborations, which unite thousands of researchers from more than 70 countries, and concerns… Read More -
Moille Awarded Distinguished Research Scientist Prize Associate Research Scientist Grégory Moille has received the Distinguished Research Scientist Prize from the College of Computer, Mathematical and Natural Sciences at the University of Maryland. The award comes with a $5,000 prize and celebrates his research excellence. “I'm deeply honored and grateful for this recognition,”… Read More -
Sclafani Cited for Dissertation Work Post-doctoral Associate Stephen Sclafani has been selected for the American Physical Society’s Ceclia Payne-Gaposchkin Doctoral Dissertation Award, which recognizes doctoral thesis research in astrophysics and encourages effective written and oral presentation of research results. Sclafani was cited for performing the first observation of diffuse high-energy neutrinos from… Read More -
Senior Physics Major Becomes an Antarctic Ice Quake Detective When senior physics major Zoe Schlossnagle arrived at the University of Maryland in fall 2021, she never could have imagined the opportunities she would seize. “I was sure that I was going to receive a vigorous physics education, of course,” Schlossnagle said. “But I also… Read More
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