Physics News Graphics: Particles

Particles

Nobel Prize Winner(October 7, 2008)
Picture of Yoichiro Nambu, one of the three 2008 physics Nobel Prize winners.

Nuclear Antenna(August 28, 2007)
A new theory suggests that intense laser light could interact with strong electric fields near atomic nuclei to produce muons.

Creating Heaviest Hydrogen(July 24, 2007)
Researchers in France have made the heaviest yet isotope of hydrogen

Baryonic Periodic Table(October 23, 2006)
Scientists at Fermilab have discovered the heaviest baryons ever

First Antimatter Chemistry(October 9, 2006)
A new experiment at CERN looks at slow antiprotonic hydrogen.

Sharper X-Ray Imaging(April 11, 2006)
Hard X-rays can be focused to a line only 30 nanometer across.

Cosmic Ray Air Shower(February 6, 2006)
Incoming cosmic rays might create miniature black holes in the atmosphere

Crusty Quark Stars(January 3, 2006)
A new idea about quark star surfaces

Color Superconductivity(November 1, 2005)
A new form of superconductivity might exist at the heart of highly compressed stars.

Proton Shape(July 22, 2003)
The proton is spherical in average, but can be kneaded by its presence in a nucleus

Pentaquark(June 30, 2003)
A particle consisting of 5 quarks has been discovered for the first time.

Black Hole Search at LHC(September 25, 2001)
Computer display of a hypothetical decay of a mini black hole in a collider detector.

New Nuclear Resonance (July 5, 2000)
A new form of nuclear resonance has been observed for the first time.

Laser Produced Protons (April 28, 2000)
Laser beams can create beams of protons.

Megaverse (April 28, 2000)
How can one detect the presence of extra dimensions?

Free Electron Laser at 93 nm (March 3, 2000)
DESY's free electron laser has produced light with a wavelength of only 93 nm.

The Fundamental Forces (October 12, 1999)
A chart of the four fundamental forces in the standard model of particle physics, which was put on a more mathematically solid footing by the winners of the 1999 Physics Nobel Prize.

Clay Oscillons (September 17, 1999)
Oscillons, strange stationary structures, have been observed in milk-like colloidal fluids.

East-West Neutrino Asymmetry (June 21, 1999)
Earth's magnetic field causes an east-west asymmetry in the arrival of cosmic-ray-generated neutrinos.

Two New Super-Heavy Elements Discovered (June 7, 1999)
Two new superheavy elements have been discovered

Direct CP Violation (March 19, 1999)
The decays of K mesons have revealed a very rare phenomenon linked with the preponderance in the universe of matter over antimatter.

Parity Non-Conservation in Atoms (March 5, 1999)
Particle physics experiments can be performed on a tabletop

Unification of forces with new dimensions (July 10, 1998)
The existence of extra spacetime dimensions might permit the physical forces to become unified at energies much lower than was previously thought.

The Search for Magnetic Monopoles (June 11, 1998)
Physicists are actively looking for signs of long-hypothesized particles known as monopoles.

The Super-Kamiokande Neutrino Detector (June 3, 1998)
Located in Japan, this detector studies the invisible, elusive particles known as neutrinos.

Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (January 21, 1998)
An aerial view of the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) being built at the Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, NY.

The B Factory (January 21, 1998)
A schematic drawing of the B Factory under construction at the Stanford Linear Acclerator Center.

Neutrino Tomography of the Earth (January 5, 1998)
A proposed scheme for using neutrinos to measure radioactive deposits inside the Earth.

The Rarest Observed Decay of the K Meson (September 18, 1997)
The rarest known decay of the K meson has been observed.

Newly Identified Top-Quark Decay Modes (September 11, 1997)
Learn about two newly identified decay routes for the top quark.

Quark Stars (August 26, 1997)
Learn how neutron stars can transform into 'quark stars' containing exotic particles such as hyperons and strange quarks.

How a Top Quark is Made (May 23, 1997)
Here's a particle decay that leads to the production of a top quark and its antimatter twin.

Peeking at a Bare Electron (January 16, 1997)
Physicists have penetrated the cloak of "virtual particles" normally surrounding the electron to learn more about the basic properties of the particle itself.

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