SLAC: Petawatt Laser Facility Addition
In late 2021, a proposal for a 10Hz petawatt laser addition to SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory’s Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) was approved for construction by the Department of Energy…
Physics Column
Measuring Resonances: JILA Optical Lattice Clock
Physicists from JILA, a research institute cofounded by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Colorado Boulder, have reported developments in the use of ultracold…
Quantum Startup Launches 256-qubit Computer
With numerous competitors across the technology industry, massive corporations such as Google and IBM have been at the forefront of developing larger and more complex systems of entangled qubits for…
Fermilab MicroBoone: No Sign of Sterile Neutrinos
New results from the United States Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), or Fermilab for short, show no signs of a fourth flavor sterile neutrino. This hypothetical particle…
Calculating the Strong Force: Lattice QCD
As of August 2021, a team of postdoctoral researchers at Columbia University have successfully implemented NVIDIA’s CUDA cores to be used as a graphical computational source for Lattice Quantum Chromodynamics…
The Formulations of Quantum Field Theory
Recent developments in modern physics revolve heavily on the notion of a Quantum Universe, with both matter and forces being described as quantized fundamental particles. These particles have set values…