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Light from huge explosion 12 billion years ago reaches Earth
Known as a gamma-ray burst, the intense light captured in the night sky resulted from one of the biggest and hottest explosions in the universe, occurring shortly after the Big Bang.Intense light from the enormous explosion of a star more … Continue reading
Year of the Faculty- Stephen Sekula
Stephen Sekula, Assistant Professor of Experimental Particle Physics is featured on Dedman College’s website. READ MORE
NOvA experiment glimpses neutrinos, one of nature’s most abundant, and elusive particles
Ghostly particles that constantly bombard us can offer clues to the early moments of our universe Scientists hunting one of nature’s most elusive, yet abundant, elementary particles announced today they’ve succeeded in their first efforts to glimpse neutrinos using a … Continue reading
SMU physicists celebrate Nobel Prize for discovery of Higgs boson “god particle”
SMU’s experimental physics group played a pivotal role in discovering the Higgs boson — the particle that proves the theory for which two scientists have received the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics. READ MORE
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