A new and powerful particle detector just passed a critical test in its goal to decipher the ingredients of the early universe. The sPHENIX detector is the newest experiment at Brookhaven National ...

Signals recorded by components of the sPHENIX calorimeter, which measures the energy of particles streaming from collisions, during a full-energy (200-billion-electron-volt) gold-gold collision at the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A powerful new particle detector has passed its first major test in the hunt for clues about the early universe. The sPHENIX ...

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The sPHENIX detector is the newest experiment at Brookhaven National Laboratory’s Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and is designed to precisely measure products of high-speed particle collisions ...

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The first results from the world's largest neutrino detector have just been published, and they reveal the most precise measurements of neutrino parameters yet. After running the detector — the ...

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UC Davis students have built a demonstration prototype for a dark matter detector and installed it at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, Switzerland. If the demonstration is succesful it could lead to ...