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Happy Birthday Arthur Holly Compton (1892–1962) 🎂 Today, we celebrate the remarkable Arthur Holly Compton, an American physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1927. 🌌 Major Contributions 🔎 - Compton Scattering : A pivotal discovery that demonstrated the particle nature of light, showing how X-rays scatter off electrons. - Cosmic Rays : His research on cosmic rays revealed the global distribution of these high-energy particles and helped map their variation across the Earth's surface. - X-ray Physics : His studies on X-rays advanced our understanding of atomic structure and revolutionized medical imaging. #Physics #NobelPrize #ArthurCompton #ComptonScattering #CosmicRays #XRayPhysics #ScientificDiscovery #ComptonEffect #PhysicsHistory

OMG, here comes the end of game big boss of #Exographer : the #HiggsBoson. In our game, you'll have to solve four analyses to defeat him. (For the particle physicists here, they are gamma gamma, 4 leptons, b bbar, and ttH). The fact that you will do that in year 12 of the post-absurd era is not a coincidence ;-) #Exographer was developped at the Science and Videogame academic chair of École Polytechnique, transfered to SciFunGames, and edited by Abylight Studios. Demo is already availble on Steam, link below.

The Higgs boson discovery confirms the Standard Model, but leaves unanswered questions about dark matter, antimatter, and potential new physics. Thus further exploration and research in particle physics is necessary. Enter bigger, powerful accelerators. Sure very expensive, but space-based particle accelerators in the moon or in zero gravity, could achieve higher energies and better vacuum, thus potentially unlocking new physics discoveries beyond Earth-based limitations.

Nature Physics: On the limitations of the semi-classical picture in high harmonic generation. Going beyond the classical perspective by investigating its limitations connects the two previously unrelated fields of quantum optics and attosecond science. https://lnkd.in/drZKtgEf

DID YOU KNOW??? The 1929 Solvay Conference was a pivotal meeting of some of the greatest minds in physics, held in Brussels, Belgium. It was the seventh in the series of conferences organized by industrialist Ernest Solvay, focusing on the theme of "The Structure and Properties of the Atomic Nucleus." Notable attendees included Albert Einstein, Niels Bohr, and Marie Curie. The conference is remembered for the intense discussions between Einstein and Bohr on the nature of quantum mechanics, particularly the implications of the uncertainty principle. The debates at this conference significantly influenced the development of modern quantum theory. #COPIED

The Short-Baseline Near Detector (SBND) at Fermilab has reached the crucial milestone of identifying its first neutrinos. Despite the abundance of neutrino particles in the Universe, they are some of the most difficult to detect and study. UK scientists funded by STFC have been working alongside around 180 scientists, engineers and technical staff from 27 institutions across the world to seek to unravel these mysterious particles and push the boundaries of what we think we know about the Universe. For decades, experts have speculated about the existence of a fourth undiscovered type of neutrino, and the SBND could be on the brink of putting these theories to rest. Find out how STFC's scientists are helping reshape particle physics 👇👇 https://lnkd.in/ddKksB-i

🚀 Breaking Boundaries in Quantum Physics 🚀 We’ve just crossed a major milestone in particle physics! Scientists at CERN have detected a 1-in-10-billion quantum phenomenon, a discovery that could unlock entirely new physics beyond the Standard Model. 🔬 In a recent experiment at CERN’s Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS), researchers smashed protons into a beryllium target, producing kaons—subatomic particles. Normally, 99.99999999% of these particles decay predictably, but every now and then, one kaon decays into a positively charged pion and a neutrino-antineutrino pair. For the first time, scientists in the NA62 collaboration successfully detected this rare decay, a potential gateway to new physics phenomena. This experiment was not just a fluke; the detection crossed the important 5-sigma threshold, a statistical marker that signals a confirmed discovery. 💡 Why does this matter? Kaons are especially sensitive to deviations from the Standard Model, meaning this decay is one of the few areas where new particle physics could emerge. If deviations in these decay patterns are found, it could lead to breakthroughs in how we understand the fundamental building blocks of the universe. The dedication behind this discovery? Over a decade of rigorous research and the collective effort of the NA62 collaboration. ✨ Key takeaway: Discoveries like this remind us that every rare event and data point brings us closer to understanding the deeper mysteries of the universe. This is the frontier where science gets exciting! For the full article click here: https://shorturl.at/4QFNq #QuantumPhysics #ParticlePhysics #CERN #KaonDecay #PhysicsBreakthrough #StandardModel #NewPhysics #ScientificDiscovery

[Scientific talk 💬] American Physical Society March Meeting, here we are! This is it, the most popular physics event! Benoît Neukelmance will present our latest amazing scientific result: Observation of microsecond lived quantum states in carbon-based circuits The talk is scheduled at 1:42 PM CST in the room 200G. The teaser 🤩 We manipulate the quantum state of a carbon nanotube double quantum dot with ferromagnetic contacts embedded in a microwave cavity. By performing quantum manipulations such as Rabi oscillations, Ramsey fringes and spin echoes, we demonstrate coherence times of the order of 1 μs, 2 orders of magnitude larger that what has been measured so far in any carbon quantum circuit and 1 order of magnitude larger than Si based quantum dots in comparable environment. This hold promises for pure isotopically purified 12C spin quantum bits in circuit quantum electrodynamics. We are thankful to the Laboratory of Physics of the École normale supérieure for this fruitful collaboration! Full authors' list here https://lnkd.in/eYkJ9aVB

Sad news in the world of physics: Peter Higgs, the Nobel-prize winning physicist who proposed the existence of the Higgs boson particle, has passed away at the age of 94. Higgs' discovery revolutionized our understanding of the universe and helped explain how particles are bound together. He will be deeply missed. Read more about his life and legacy here: https://lnkd.in/e6SxzDfm

On this day in science Erwin Schrödinger was born Austrian theoretical physicist who shared the 1933 Nobel Prize for Physics with the British physicist P.A.M. Dirac. Erwin Schrödinger took Louis de Broglie's concept of atomic particles as having wave-like properties, and modified the earlier Bohr model of the atom to accommodate the wave nature of the electrons. This made a major contribution to the development of quantum mechanics. Schrödinger realized the possible orbits of an electron would be confined to those in which its matter waves close in an exact number of wavelengths. This condition, similar to a standing wave, would account for only certain orbits being possible, and none possible in between them. This provided an explanation for discrete lines in the spectrum of excited atoms. #science #scienceandtechnology #physics #chemistry #pharmacy #quantum #infographic via Compound Interest | Chemistry infographics