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PhD student Wen-Yi Song submits paper on magnetic monopole pair production
PhD student Wen-Yi Song (centre) celebrates the submission of her first-author paper (https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.10789) with PhD student Ana Maria Rodriguez (left) and Prof Claire David (right).
ALPHA Experiment Cools Antimatter with Lasers
The ALPHA experiment, including Professor Scott Menary and grad student Darij Starko, is the first to use lasers to cool a sample of antimatter to near absolute zero. Check out some of the media coverage below or read the Nature paper. https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/antimatter-laser-1.5970894 https://yfile.news.yorku.ca/2021/03/31/york-researchers-part-of-international-effort-to-cool-a-sample-of-antimatter-to-near-absolute-zero/?utm_source=YFile_Email&utm_medium=Email&utm_content=Top-Stories&utm_campaign=yfile https://www.wired.com/story/physicists-learn-to-superfreeze-antimatter-hint-pew-pew/
ATLAS Releases Top-quark Production Rate in 5 TeV Proton-Proton Collisions
Postdoc Mohammad Kareem’s work on the new ATLAS measurement of the top-quark pair-production rate in 5 TeV proton-proton collisions collected during a single week of LHC operation is released. https://atlas.cern/updates/briefing/top-pair-5-TeV
New T2K results establish significant boundaries on neutrino oscillation
https://www.triumf.ca/research-highlights/new-t2k-results-establish-significant-boundaries-neutrino-oscillation
ATLAS homes in on magnetic monopoles
https://home.cern/news/news/physics/atlas-homes-magnetic-monopoles
Recent York physics grad wins prestigious PPD Thesis Prize
http://yfile.news.yorku.ca/2019/06/02/recent-york-physics-grad-wins-prestigious-ppd-thesis-prize/
Wendy Taylor explains where the Higgs boson was hiding, on Quirks and Quarks
https://t.co/ImfNq5s2TB
York graduate student receives Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Fellowship
The graduate student Elder Pinzon Guerra (Physics and Astronomy, supervised by Sampa Bhadra) has been awarded a Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Fellowship for Research in Japan (Short-Term). The fellowship will support Elder for three months to work on his PhD thesis project with Prof. Masashi Yokoyama and Prof. Mark Hartz at The University of […]
Two York undergraduate students receive DURA award for summer HEP research
Monahil Chaudry, supervised by Professor Sean Tulin, and Leonardo Hernandez, supervised by Professor Wendy Taylor, will perform research in the York High Energy Physics group for the summer. http://yfile.news.yorku.ca/2017/04/26/faculty-of-science-makes-19-deans-undergraduate-research-awards/