Around 60 experts will discuss the state of physics accelerators, and discuss gamma rays, cosmic rays, neutrinos, dark matter, dark energy and gravitational waves. The scientific meeting is in the Underground Laboratory Canfranc (Huesca), which next week will host an international conference on advances in high energy physics and astroparticle, and which is intended to expose the first results of LHC.
Canfranc The Underground Laboratory, in the village of Canford Cliffs (Huesca), will host an international conference next week on the forefront of high energy physics and astroparticle. About 60 experts analyzed for five days, the current state and future of accelerator physics, and will share the situation of different experiments on gamma rays, cosmic rays, neutrinos, dark matter, dark energy and gravitational waves.
It is envisaged that the framework of this international conference setting out the preliminary results from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the largest European Laboratory for Particle Physics CERN in Geneva, to address the status of the new synchrotron Alba, located in Barcelona, or the status of the Tevatron, the Fermilab particle accelerator in Illinois (United States).
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On the bedrock of a crater on Devon Island in the Arctic, an experimental greenhouse stands flanked by solar panels. And now we discover one day be used to produce fruits and vegetables … in space.
The project of the University of Guelph is anything but silly. “We will be the first to grow plants on the moon,” said Professor Mike Dixon, who works with the Canadian Space Agency and NASA. Replenish the food astronauts installed on the Moon or Mars will cost enormous sums, argues Mike Dixon. Also show them to grow!
According to the researcher, the environment of the Arthur C. Clark March Analog Greenhouse, Nunavut, closely resembles a Martian landscape. In photo, reminiscent of the Haughton crater Gusev crater on Mars. “If you remove the blue skies of the Arctic, we deem that is Mars. ”
Obviously, the Arctic will not reveal any culture conditions on Mars. “We’re not yet sure if photosynthesis is possible,” admits Mixes Dixon. There are half as on Mars than on Earth of light, which should still be sufficient for plants.
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Some new images captured by the Hubble Space Fermi Gamma, NASA, shows the places where certain supernova remnants emit radiation one billion times more energetic than visible light. The images are astronomers a step closer to knowing in detail the origin of cosmic rays, consisting of particles that are among the most energy in the universe.
Cosmic rays consist mainly of protons that move through space at nearly the speed of light. On his journey through the galaxy, the particles are deflected by magnetic fields. This changes their paths and masks its origin.
Clearly know the origin of cosmic rays is one of the main objectives of the Fermi Telescope, as noted by Stefan Funk, an astrophysicist at the Kavli Institute for Cosmology and Particle Astrophysics (KIPAC), located partly in the Laboratory SLAC National Accelerator Facility, and partly at the University of Stanford, California.
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Within the first leg of his trip to the International Space Station (ISS), the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) left this morning the headquarters of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva. This detector will search positrons and electrons in space, as possible markers of dark matter.
This has been confirmed CERN technicians, who hope that in six days the arrival of a special transport convoy to ESTEC, the technology research center and the European Space Agency (ESA) in Noordwijk, Netherlands.
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