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Their ultimate fate depends on an important unknown in high-energy physics: the equation that describes what neutron stars are made of and how that material moves, flows, and interacts with the world around it.
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Briley Lewis, Popular Science, 9 Jan. 2023
Last month, scientists at CERN, the prestigious high-energy physics lab in Switzerland, reported that neutrinos might—repeat, might—travel faster than the speed of light.
—Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 6 Oct. 2011
As large-scale projects like LBNF/DUNE have ramped up over the last five years, Congress has increased the DOE’s overall budget for high-energy physics by nearly 30 percent.
—Thomas Lewton, Scientific American, 13 Apr. 2022
Other work established links between the geometric program and high-energy physics.
—Rachel Crowell, Scientific American, 21 Mar. 2022
Critical phenomena show up all over the place — in cosmology, high-energy physics, even biological systems.
—Quanta Magazine, 11 Nov. 2021
MZMs are their quasiparticle equivalent, illustrating how behaviors of particles seen or suggested in high-energy physics are now turning up in materials governed by quantum laws.
—Quanta Magazine, 29 Sep. 2021
Finally, the advent of modern experimental high-energy physics taught us that even the proton and neutron have smaller particles inside of them: quarks and gluons.
—Ethan Siegel, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2021
Finding out exactly what happens when particles get even cozier is a major goal of high-energy physics.
—Quanta Magazine, 17 Sep. 2020
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Briley Lewis, Popular Science, 9 Jan. 2023
Last month, scientists at CERN, the prestigious high-energy physics lab in Switzerland, reported that neutrinos might—repeat, might—travel faster than the speed of light.
—Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 6 Oct. 2011
As large-scale projects like LBNF/DUNE have ramped up over the last five years, Congress has increased the DOE’s overall budget for high-energy physics by nearly 30 percent.
—Thomas Lewton, Scientific American, 13 Apr. 2022
Other work established links between the geometric program and high-energy physics.
—Rachel Crowell, Scientific American, 21 Mar. 2022
Critical phenomena show up all over the place — in cosmology, high-energy physics, even biological systems.
—Quanta Magazine, 11 Nov. 2021
MZMs are their quasiparticle equivalent, illustrating how behaviors of particles seen or suggested in high-energy physics are now turning up in materials governed by quantum laws.
—Quanta Magazine, 29 Sep. 2021
Finally, the advent of modern experimental high-energy physics taught us that even the proton and neutron have smaller particles inside of them: quarks and gluons.
—Ethan Siegel, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2021
Finding out exactly what happens when particles get even cozier is a major goal of high-energy physics.
—Quanta Magazine, 17 Sep. 2020
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