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"My laboratory is a supernova," Yong Qian states matter-of-factly with a smile. Qian is a theoretical physicist studying neutrino oscillations, the change from one "flavor" to another as a neutrino moves through matter and space. This phenomenon occurs because a neutrino is created in one of three flavor states (or simply “flavors”), with three distinct mass states. |
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Kakalios video wins regional Emmy award
The University News Service video "The Science of Watchmen" featuring Professor James Kakalios, which has received more than 1.5 million views on YouTube, received a regional Emmy Award in the "Advanced Media: Arts/Entertainment" category. More »
Neutrinos on Display
While a particle physicist may tell you that neutrinos are fiendishly difficult to observe, the public visibility of neutrinos in Minnesota has changed dramatically with the approval of more than $40M of stimulus funding for the NOvA project. More »
CLEO collaboration submits 500th paper
The CLEO collaboration has recently submitted its 500th publication to a peer-reviewed journal. This is the largest number of papers of any collaboration in the history of elementary particle physics. More »
LIGO results set new limits on gravitational waves
Results from LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) Scientific Collaboration and the Virgo Collaboration have set the most stringent limits yet on gravitational waves. Gravitational waves are ripples in the fabric of space and time predicted by Einstein's theory of General Relativity. More »
Outreach
Physics Force
The Physics Force is a troop of physics teachers who perform large scale entertaining physics demonstrations. More »
Recent Publications
Thickness Dependent Phase Behavior of Antiferroelectric Liquid Crystal Films
by LiDong Pan, Shun Wang, C. S. Hsu, and C. C. Huang in PRL 103, 187802 (2009). More »
Magnetic-Field-Induced Superconducting State in Zn Nanowires Driven in the Normal State by an Electric Current
by Yu Chen, S. D. Snyder, and A. M. Goldman in Physical Review Letters 103, 127002 (2009). More »
The Local Enhancement of Radiation Dose from Photons of MeV Energies
by Ahmad Alkhatib, Yoichi Watanabe and John H. Broadhurst in Med. Phys. 36 (8) August 2009. More »
A Universal Relationship Between Magnetic Resonance and Superconducting Gap in Unconventional Superconductors
by G. Yu1, Y. Li1, E. M. Motoyama1 & M. Greven2,3 Nature Physics 18 October 2009 More »