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Researchers from the CMS collaboration at DESY and the University of Hamburg have detected an unexpected excess of top quark-antiquark pairs at very low energies. This effect was first observed in the 2016 data and has been further reinforced by the analyses of 2017 and 2018 data. The results suggest that top quarks and their antiparticles may be able to combine into a short-lived bound state known as ‘toponium’. Until now, it was considered virtually impossible that such bon

Researchers at The University of Osaka have developed a novel method for generating ultrahigh magnetic fields via laser-driven implosions of blade-structured microtubes. This method achieves field strengths approaching one megatesla—a breakthrough in compact, high-field plasma science.

A group of DESY scientists together with colleagues from Finland and France has observed signatures of polariton-formation at extreme-ultraviolet (EUV) wavelengths for the first time. In general, polaritons are hybrid-states that emerge from the interplay of light and matter excitations - mostly observed under strong-coupling conditions.

MIT physicists have captured the first images of individual atoms freely interacting in space. The pictures reveal correlations among the “free-range” particles that until now were predicted but never directly observed. Their findings, appearing in the journal Physical Review Letters, will help scientists visualize never-before-seen quantum phenomena in real space.

Using a clever correction system, a research team was able to significantly improve the quality of electron bunches accelerated by a laser plasma accelerator. This brings the technology a step closer to concrete applications, such as a plasma-based injector for a synchrotron storage ring.

Seeking to mimic self-assembly processes that occur naturally, RIKEN researchers have demonstrated that the self-assembly of rod-shaped v...