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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 demonstrated a new form of magnetism that could one day be harnessed to build faster, denser, and less power-hungry “spintronic” memory chips. The new magnetic state is a mash-up of two main forms of magnetism: the ferromagnetism of everyday fridge magnets and compass needles, and antiferromagnetism, in which materials have magnetic properties at the microscale yet are not macroscopically magnetized.

Using advanced computational modelling, a research team led by the University of Oxford has achieved the first-ever real-time, three-dimensional simulations of how intense laser beams alter the ‘quantum vacuum’—a state once assumed to be empty, but which quantum physics predicts is full of virtual electron-positron pairs.

Self-driving cars which eliminate traffic jams, getting a healthcare diagnosis instantly without leaving your home, or feeling the touch of loved ones based across the continent may sound like the stuff of science fiction. But new research, led by the University of Bristol and published in the journal Nature Electronics, could make all this and more a step closer to reality thanks to a radical breakthrough in semiconductor technology.