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UA Physics in the News

  • Looking for interstellar dust, finding gravitational lens with JWST
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Tag: research

UA Gamma-ray Astrophysics Group Awarded Grant for Work on Sources of Gamma-rays, Neutrinos, and Gravitational Waves

  • August 9th, 2019

The recent discovery of gravitational waves and high-energy neutrinos from astrophysical sources has opened new windows of exploration to the Universe. These observations, combined with sensitive electromagnetic measurements with space-

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Categories: Astronomy, News Feature Tags: gamma-ray group, research

UA Physicists Collaborate with US Army Researchers on Chemical Sensors

  • April 15th, 2019

Work from the ongoing collaboration between University of Alabama physicist Dr. Adam Hauser, his students, and U.S. Army scientist Jennifer Soliz of the U.S Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Chemical

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Categories: News Feature, Physics Tags: condensed matter physics, research

Postdoc Chris West Receives 2018 CMS Achievement Award

  • March 1st, 2019

University of Alabama postdoctoral researcher Chris West was recently awarded a 2018 CMS Achievement Award, for his contributions to the Hadronic Calorimeter (HCAL) project on the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS)

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Categories: News Feature, Physics Tags: CMS detector, research

CERN Experiment Involving UA’s Henderson and Rumerio Observes Long-Sought Higgs Boson

  • September 12th, 2018

The Higgs boson has at last been observed decaying to fundamental particles known as bottom quarks. The finding, presented today at CERN by the ATLAS and CMS collaborations at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), is consistent with the

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Categories: News Feature, Physics Tags: research

Research Involving UA’s Ion Stancu Supports Existence of New Type of Neutrino

  • July 3rd, 2018

Data collected by the MiniBooNE neutrino experiment show evidence supporting the possibility that there may be a 4th “sterile” neutrino.  UA physics professor Dr. Ion Stancu is a participant in

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Categories: News Feature, Physics Tags: neutrino, research

UA Astronomers Use Hubble Space Telescope to Understand Variable Stars

  • February 20th, 2018

Several researchers in the Department of Physics and Astronomy have been selected for observation time on the Hubble Space Telescope. One member, Professor Dean Townsley, as part of an international

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Categories: Astronomy, News Feature Tags: astronomy group, research

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