Hawaiʻi physicists observe mysterious new particle
The BESIII Experiment team, which includes UH Mānoa’s High Energy Physics Group, reported that the Y(4260) particle decays to a new particle.
The BESIII Experiment team, which includes UH Mānoa’s High Energy Physics Group, reported that the Y(4260) particle decays to a new particle.
The free event features physics and astronomy research and applications presented by faculty and students.
Physics and astronomy demonstrations and hands-on activities highlight event on November 19.
Mānoa physicist John Madey will receive the 2012 American Physical Society Robert R. Wilson prize.
UH Astronomer John Tonry and the Institute for Astronomy’s Canada-France-Hawaiʻi Telescope were key players in the discovery recognized by the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics.