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The Laboratory for Nuclear Science (LNS) was established in 1946 to provide support for basic research by faculty and research staff members in the fields of nuclear and high energy physics.
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MIT, Laboratory for Nuclear Science The Laboratory for Nuclear Science (LNS) was established in 1946 to provide support for basic research by faculty and research staff members in the fields of nuclear and high energy physics.
12/14/2012
Ray Cowan as well as CMS and ATLAS have been named to Physics World's top 10 for 2012
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Physics World reveals its top 10 breakthroughs for 2012 - physicsworld.com ATLAS and CMS take top gong for Higgs-like discovery
Leaders of CMS, ATLAS and LHc awarded Special Fundamental Physics Prize by the Milner Foundation
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Ting named an AAAS fellow
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LNS Special Seminar
Thursday, October 18, 2012
9:30 AM - Kolker Room
Juan Jose Gomez-Cadenas, University of Valencia, Spain
"Exploring Majorana Landscape: the NEXT Generation"
Neutrinos may be Majorana particles. If so, neutrino less double beta decay processes could be observed by the next generation of bb0nu experiments. I will briefly review the state of the art, then discuss one of the most promising ideas in the field, the use of Hight Pressure Gas Xenon TPC (HPGXe) with electroluminescence gain and optical readout. A 100 kg incarnation of such a device will start operations at the Canfranc Underground Lab in Spain in late 2013 or early 2014. The technology can be extrapolated to 1 ton, and thus lead the exploration of the inverse hierarchy in Majorana landscape.
Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium
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October 1, 2012
JoAnne Hewett, Stanford University Hewett
"The LHC Confronts Supersymmetry"
The Large Hadron Collider is providing our first clear view of the Terascale and is confronting our most cherished theories with data, in particular Supersymmetry. Supersymmetry arises from a symmetry allowed by nature that is simply an extension of the Poincare group. Supersymmetry at the Terascale offers attractive solutions to many outstanding issues, including the weak hierarchy problem, the dark matter problem and grand unification of the forces. Supersymmetry at the Terascale offers testable predictions that differ between models of Supersymmetry breaking. So far, LHC searches for Supersymmetry have come up short and the newly discovered Higgs-like boson is surprisingly difficult to accommodate within the simplest Supersymmetry breaking models. I will review the implications of this data on various Supersymmetric models. In particular, I will show that a region of parameter space withing the phenomenological Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model can easily evade the LHC searches and accommodate a 125 GeV Higgs boson, while resulting in acceptable values of fine-tuning.
Time: 4:15 pm
Place: LNS Kolker Room, 26-414
Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium
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September 10, 2012
Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium
Douglas Finkbeiner, Harvard University
"The Galactic center 130 GeV line: WIMP or artifact?"
The recent claims of a gamma-ray line in the Galactic center at 130 GeV has generated excitement, not least because it could be a signal of dark matter annihilation. I will summarize the current state of the observations of the Galactic center, clusters, and unassociated halo objects, and speculate about models of particle dark matter that could explain the data.
Time: 4:15 pm
Place: LNS Kolker Room, 26-414
07/19/2012
SkTech / MIT Seminar Announcement
Interested in what the Faculty and Students at LNS have been up to in 2011-2012? Please visit our new Awards and Honors page!
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05/04/2012
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