October 2021 News

The STAR detector at RHIC with a superimposed image showing particle tracks emerging from a nuclear collision as picked up by the detector. Credit: US Department of Energy
October 29, 2021
By Jim Shelton The hunt continues for a physics phenomenon known as the “chiral magnetic effect” (CME). Physicists from the international STAR Collaboration, based at...
October 29, 2021
Graduate student Emily Kuhn has been awarded a NASA Postdoctoral Program (NPP) fellowship for her proposal “Instrument Development for Next-Generation Radio Telescopes”. ...
Image courtesy of the MicroBooNE collaboration
October 27, 2021
Researchers in the Yale High Energy Physics group, led by Wright Lab professor Bonnie Fleming, along with the Micro Booster Neutrino Experiment (MicroBooNE) collaboration,...
October 27, 2021
On October 26, 2021, Sheridan Green successfully defended the thesis “The tidal evolution of dark matter substructure and the significance of halo-to-halo assembly history...
October 26, 2021
Elena Gramellini, currently a postdoctoral associate at Fermilab, was selected as a “Rising Star in Experimental Particle Physics” at the University of Chicago. The UChicago...