Tag Archives: Muons

When Muons Collide

Posted on December 12, 2010 by PlatoHagel

By Leah Hesla Illustration: Sandbox Studio When Fermilab physicist Steve Geer agreed to perform a calculation as part of a muon collider task force 10 years ago, he imagined he would show that the collider’s technical challenges were too difficult … Continue reading →

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Muon

Posted on December 9, 2010 by PlatoHagel

The Moon‘s cosmic ray shadow, as seen in secondary muons generated by cosmic rays in the atmosphere, and detected 700 meters below ground, at the Soudan II detector. Composition: Elementary particle Particle statistics: Fermionic Group: Lepton Generation: Second Interaction: Gravity, … Continue reading →

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A first look at the Earth interior from the Gran Sasso underground laboratory

Posted on March 22, 2010 by PlatoHagel

The Gran Sasso National Laboratory (LNGS) is one of four INFN national laboratories. It is the largest underground laboratory in the world for experiments in particle physics, particle astrophysics and nuclear astrophysics. It is used as a worldwide facility by … Continue reading →

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Mysterious Behavior of Neutrinos sent Straight through the Earth

Posted on December 24, 2009 by PlatoHagel

This rendering depicts the future NOvA detector facility on the property. Rendering by Holabird & Root. The NOνA experiment, a collaboration of over 180 scientists from some 28 institutions, will be the world’s most advanced neutrino experiment. NOvA physicists will … Continue reading →

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Permanence of Fact in Literature

Posted on January 29, 2009 by PlatoHagel

John Updike in 1955. John Hoyer Updike (18 March 1932 – 27 January 2009) was an American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic. Updike’s most famous work is his Rabbit series (Rabbit, Run; Rabbit Redux; Rabbit … Continue reading →

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The CrossOver Point within the Perfect Fluid?

Posted on April 12, 2007 by PlatoHagel

I had been following this research because of what I had been trying to understand when we take our understanding down to a certain level. That level is within the context of us probing the collision process for evidence of … Continue reading →

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Blackhole evaporation: What’s New From the Subatomic-Sized Holes ?

Posted on April 10, 2007 by PlatoHagel

…the creative principle resides in mathematics. In a certain sense therefore, I hold it true that pure thought can grasp reality, as the ancients dreamed.Albert Einstein See What is Cerenkov Radiation? We are being “politically correct” (a sociological observation) when … Continue reading →

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Strangelets and Strange Matter

Posted on February 14, 2007 by PlatoHagel

Of course I will point to some of the “inherent nature” that some scientists encounter as they develop the geometrical basis to “all the concepts could ever mean?” But first, “the journey.” If not fundamental, though, quark nuggets zipping around … Continue reading →

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Radiactive Decay

Posted on January 20, 2007 by PlatoHagel

Unit Circle Complex numbers can be identified with points in the Euclidean plane, namely the number a + bi is identified with the point (a, b). Under this identification, the unit circle is a group under multiplication, called the circle … Continue reading →

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Collider Detector at Fermilab and Slac

Posted on January 19, 2007 by PlatoHagel

Current evidence shows that neutrinos do oscillate, which indicates that neutrinos do have mass. The Los Alamos data revealed a muon anti-neutrino cross over to an electron neutrino. This type of oscillation is difficult to explain using only the three … Continue reading →

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