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Fork Particle Visual FX SDK Complete for PC and Xbox 360 Live Arcade

Fork Particle Visual FX SDK Complete for PC and Xbox 360 Live Arcade Pleasanton, CA-based Fork Particle has launched its "Fork Particle Visual Effects SDK Complete" for PC and Xbox Live Arcade developers, a toolkit the company says helps developers implement advanced particle system special effects and reduce production time. The toolkit is also currently available for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.

New Type of Particle May Have Been Found

An anonymous reader writes "The LHC is out of commission, but the Tevatron collider at Fermilab is still chugging along, and may have just discovered a new type of particle that would signal new physics. New Scientist reports that the Tevatron's CDF detector has found muons that seem to have been created outside of the beam pipe that confines the protons and anti-protons being smashed together. The standard model can't explain the muons, and some speculate that 'an unknown particle with a lifetime of about 20 picoseconds was produced in the collision, traveled about 1 centimeter, through the side of the beam pipe, and then decayed into muons.' The hypothetical particle even seems to have the right mass to account for one theory of dark matter.

Weird New Particle Found by Fermilab's Tevatron

The fact that the Large Hadron Collider is shut down until next year doesn't mean that discoveries in the field of quantum particle physics aren't deployed anymore. As such, researchers operating the old Tevatron device from the American Fermilab laboratory in Batavia (Illinois) stumbled upon a strange new particle last week, which they cannot explain through the means of the standard model of physics.

Fermilab 'ghosts' hint at new particles

Physicists at the Tevatron collider at Fermilab in the US, which is enjoying extended status as the world’s most powerful particle collider while CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) awaits repair, have reported signals in their data that hint at the existence of new fundamental particles. Last week members of the CDF experiment, one of the Tevatron’s two huge particle detectors, posted a preprint detailing a large sample of proton—antiproton collisions that cannot be accounted for either by quirks of the CDF detector or by known processes in the standard model of particle physics (

Particle Physics, Pattern Perception, Science Communication

Elsewhere in science news last week, physicists reported last week that one of the largest computational efforts to calculate the masses of protons and neutrons has confirmed the standard model of particle physics. The study was published in Science.

New computer model gives particle physics another thumbs-up

The Standard Model of particle physics, that old workhorse of a theory, has dodged another bullet. The model lays out the properties of all known elementary particles and describes three of the four fundamental forces that govern nature (gravity is left out—finding a home for it is one of the most pressing problems in physics). But it also raises some questions—for instance, why should protons and neutrons, which make up atomic nuclei, be so heavy when their constituent parts, quarks and gluons, are so light? (In fact, the Standard Model holds that gluons are massless.)

Next-generation Particle Accelerator -- ALICE -- Accelerates To 4-Million-Volt Milestone

A major milestone has been achieved in the completion of the UK's next-generation particle accelerator, ALICE, which is set to produce an intense beam of light that will revolutionise the way in which accelerator based light source research facilities will be designed in the future.

Malvern Showcases new Systems for Foreign Particle Determination, Protein Characterization and Rheology Measurement

Malvern Instruments will demonstrate a new application for foreign particle determination on filters, and will show new systems for protein characterization and rheology measurement at the 2008 AAPS Annual Meeting & Exposition (17-20 Nov, Atlanta, USA).

MEN: VMEbus PC used in CERN particle accelerator

The new VMEbus SBC from MEN Mikro Elektronik will be used in CERN’s particle accelerator. The A20 supports a multitude of Intel Core 2 types and pairs outstanding reliability in computing with fast data transmission. The A20 single-board computer is the latest 6U VMEbus board of MEN's product range. Being open for any user requirements, the robust card supports a multitude of Intel processors - from the Core Duo or Core 2 Duo with 1.5 GHz down to single-core Celeron M versions. Due to the Tundra TSI148 bridge controller the SBC supports fast and reliable data throughput using 2eSST. This protocol doubles the theoretical VMEbus transaction bandwidth to up to 320 MB/s.

Hawking bets CERN mega-machine won't find 'God's Particle'

Renowned British astrophysicist Stephen Hawking has bet 100 dollars (70 euros) that a mega-experiment this week will not find an elusive particle seen as a holy grail of cosmic science, he said Tuesday.

Large Hadron Collider? But I just met her!

Particle accelerators are nothing new: we’ve been playing with accelerators since 1929, and even your old CRT monitor is a form of particle accelerator. But atom smashers, as they are sometimes called, are designed to accelerate particles to incredible speeds for the sole purpose of colliding them together – just to see what happens.

The Worldwide LHC Computing Grid celebrates first data

03 October 2008 Three weeks after the first particle beams were injected into the Large Hadron Collider - the world's largest particle accelerator - the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid celebrates the start of its crucial data challenge: the analysis and management of more than 15 Petabyte of data every year, to be produced from the hundreds of millions of subatomic collisions expected inside the LHC every second. This data-handling feat marks an essential stage in the process of enabling researchers to discover new physics.

Underground Lab To Probe Ratio of Matter To Antimatter

Wired reports on the Enriched Xenon Observatory 200, a particle detector scientists hope will answer the question of why there is significantly more matter than antimatter in the universe. Quoting: "The new detector will try to fill in the picture, determining basic features of [neutrinos], like their mass and whether or not they, unlike almost all other particles, are their own antiparticles. That quirk is why some scientists believe neutrinos could be the mechanism for the creation of our matter-filled universe. Almost all other particles have an antiparticle twin that, if it comes into contact with the particle, immediately annihilates it. But if neutrinos are their own antiparticles they could conceivably be knocked onto matter's 'team,' thereby causing the cascading win for matter over antimatter that we know occurred.

This Week in Physics History: Oct. 27 - Nov. 2

Nov. 2, 1929 - Canadian-American physicist Richard E. Taylor is born. Taylor shared the 1990 Nobel Prize in physics for work in particle scattering that helped lead to the quark model of particle physics.

Particle collider repairs may take months and cost $25 million

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Particle collider may take months to repair

GENEVA -- Fixing the world's largest atom smasher will cost at least $25 million Cdn and may take until early summer.

Big particle collider repairs to cost $21 million

GENEVA - Fixing the world's largest atom smasher will cost at least $21 millionand may take until early summer, its operator said Monday.

Exhibition of particle characterisation systems

Malvern Instruments will participate in the scientific poster sessions at this year's Drug Delivery to the Lungs conference,held on 10-12 December, Edinburgh, Scotland.

CERN says repairs to LHC particle accelerator to cost US$21 million

The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) said on Monday that repairing the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will cost up to €16.6 million or US$21 million.

CERN says repairs to LHC particle accelerator to cost US$21 million

The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) said on Monday that repairing the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will cost up to €16.6 million or US$21 million.

CERN Unveils Global Grid For Particle Physics Research

The network can pull in the IT power of more than 140 computer centers in 33 countries to crunch an expected 15 million GB of data every year.

Malvern Demonstrate New Systems for Foreign Particle Determination on Filters

NanoSight Receives GBP925,000 in New Funding Round to Expand Their Nanoparticle Characterization Business

EU study confirms the Standard Model of particle physics

Complimentray educational webinar series to share nanotechnology best practices and application innovations

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