A Total Eclipse of the First Day of School
Thousands of students, faculty and townspeople showed up on campus Monday, Aug. 22 to view the Great American Solar Eclipse at a viewing hosted by Dedman College and the SMU Physics Department.
SMU physicists: CERN’s Large Hadron Collider is once again smashing protons, taking data
CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and its experiments are back in action, now taking physics data for 2016 to get an improved understanding of fundamental physics.
Physicists tune Large Hadron Collider to find “sweet spot” in high-energy proton smasher
New launch of the world's most powerful particle accelerator is the most stringent test yet of our accepted theories of how subatomic particles work and interact
Fermilab Symmetry: From the Standard Model to space
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory featured SMU physics alum Ryan Rios in an article about physicists working at NASA's Johnson Space Center.
The power of ManeFrame: SMU’s new supercomputer boosts research capacity
SMU now has a powerful new tool for research – one of the fastest academic supercomputers in the nation – and a new facility to house it. With a cluster of more than 1,000 Dell servers, the system’s capacity is on par with high-performance computing (HPC) power at much larger universities and at government-owned laboratories. The U.S. Department of Defense awarded the system to SMU in August 2013.
SMU physicists celebrate Nobel Prize for discovery of Higgs boson “god particle”
SMU joins nearly 2,000 physicists from U.S. institutions — including 89 U.S. universities and seven U.S. DOE labs — that participate in discovery experiments Book a live interview To book a live or taped interview with Ryszard Stroynowski in the SMU News Broadcast Studio call SMU News at 214-768-7650 or email news@smu.edu. Related links Science [...]
Dallas Observer: How Texas Came Within an Atom’s Breadth of Discovering the God Particle
The Dallas Observer interviewed SMU physicist Ryszard Stroynowski about Texas' historic role in particle physics before the landmark discovery announced in July of the new fundamental "God particle" necessary for scientists to explain how matter acquires mass.
NatGeo: “God Particle” Found? “Historic Milestone” From Higgs Boson Hunters
SMU physicist Stroynowski is a principal investigator in the search for the Higgs boson, and the leader of SMU’s team in the Department of Physics that is working on the experiment.
The experimental physics group at SMU has been involved since 1994 and is a major contributor to the research, the heart of which is the Large Hadron Collider particle accelerator on the border with Switzerland and France.
DMN: Dallas-area physicists had a hand in discovery of “God particle”
The Dallas Morning News interviewed SMU physicist Ryszard Stroynowski about the historic discovery of the new fundamental particle necessary for scientists to explain how matter acquires mass.