The week in physics: Airplane turbulence; LHC neutrinos

First detections of collider neutrinos generate excitement Forward this email View in your browser THE WEEK IN PHYSICS: 4–8 SEPTEMBER Advertisement Quiet, Cost-effective, Dry Vacuum Pumps Pfeiffer Vacuum's new HiScroll pumps are ideal for your lab with: Fastest pump down – Boost mode gets you down to operating pressure quickly; Intelligent pressure monitoring – Set your pressure and forget it; Longer lifetime – 2 years before first service; Quiet – Earplugs not required. Learn more. First detections of collider neutrinos generate excitement Future measurements of high-energy neutrinos at the Large Hadron Collider could yield insights into tau neutrinos, the strong force, and even new physics. Allison Gasparini Climate change portends a turbulent future for airline passengers Severe turbulence that is difficult to detect will likely increase as the planet warms, satellite data and climate models suggest. Rachel Brazil Live webinar Webinar—Using Lasers to Accelerate Electrons to Multi-GeV Energies Using only lasers, this research group has accelerated electrons to 5 GeV. The acceleration, which takes place over only 20 cm, is approximately 20% of the acceleration achievable at the Stanford Linear Accelerator over 3 km. Register now. FROM THE VAULT: April 1977 Booth sessions: a critical assessment Poster sessions are a well-known feature of the modern conference landscape. This archival commentary examines the impact of and responses to their addition to one 1975 meeting. John S. Risley Neutron-rich oxygen isotope is unexpectedly unmagical The instability of oxygen-28 suggests that its neutrons are not packed into neatly filled shells. Andrew Grant You might have missed A brown dwarf star serves as an ultrahot-Jupiter analogue Irradiated by a hot white dwarf companion, the newly identified celestial object resembles a giant planet under extreme conditions. R. Mark Wilson Live webinar Webinar—Thinking Probabilistically: Stochastic Models and Their Applications Stochastic models are ubiquitous in nature. They are applicable to the diffusion of molecules (which, when combined with Albert Einstein's theory, provided the first proof for the atomistic nature of matter), the way through which random mutations drive evolutionary dynamics, and more. Register now. FROM THE SEPTEMBER MAGAZINE Microscopic scales enhance a butterfly's flying efficiency Ever catch a butterfly and noticed what looks like dust coating your fingers? They're the scales covering the insect's wings, and they allow it to slip through the air. Amy W. Lang Get notified about our webinars and whitepapers Sign up Get Physics Today delivered for just $25 per year Subscribe Accelerating career connections worldwide for over 75 years BROWSE ALL JOBS POST A JOB CREATE JOB ALERTS FEATURED JOBS George H. Vineyard Assistant Professorship of Theoretical Condensed-Matter Physics University of Missouri Physics and Astronomy Department (Columbia, MO) View Job Tenure-Track Assistant Professorship in Astronomy/Astrophysics University of Missouri Physics and Astronomy Department (Columbia, MO) View Job Research Scientist / Senior Research Scientist, Research Instruments Group RIKEN (Saitama, Japan) View Job Assistant Professor in Experimental or Observational Cosmology Boston University (Boston, MA) View Job University Professorship (W3) Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Karlsruhe, Germany) View Job Research Scientist in Quantum Algorithms and Applications CSIRO (Clayton, Victoria, Australia) View Job Physics Today is published by the American Institute of Physics 1 Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740 USA +1 301 209 3100 © 2023 American Institute of Physics. Unsubscribe  |  Email Preferences  |  Privacy Policy  |  Contact Us