The paper “Two-Pole Nature of the Λ(1405) Resonance from Lattice QCD” published by the Baryon Scattering (BaSc) collaboration was recently accepted as editors’ suggestion in the Physical Review Letters. The accompanying paper “Lattice QCD study of πΣ−KN scattering and the … Read more
The “Final Result of the Majorana Demonstrator’s Search for Neutrinoless Double-β Decay in 76Ge,” caught the eye of the scientific community becoming the most downloaded Nuclear Physics related paper that was published in Physical Review Letters in 2023. From 2015 … Read more
A technological advance in medical and dental imaging promises to improve diagnostic accuracy while minimizing patient exposure to radiation, according to a research article in the Nature journal Communications Engineering. In the article, “Volumetric Computed Tomography with Carbon Nanotube X-Ray Source Array … Read more
December 19, 2023, Chapel Hill, North Carolina – The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH) chapter of the Society of Physics Students (SPS) has once again secured the coveted Outstanding Chapter Award from the SPS National Office. This marks … Read more
The Graduate-to-Undergraduate (G2U) Mentoring program at the University of North Carolina’s Department of Physics & Astronomy (P&A) has recently been awarded a $6,998 grant for unit enhancement by the College of Arts and Sciences’ Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) … Read more
The Nuclear Science Advisory Committee (NSAC) today announced the approval and release of A New Era of Discovery: The 2023 Long Range Plan for Nuclear Science. This new document provides a roadmap for advancing the nation’s nuclear science research programs … Read more
Renowned physicist and cosmologist Professor Edward “Rocky” Kolb will be making an exciting visit to UNC Physics and Astronomy on March 27th and 28th, as part of the New Horizon’s Distinguished Speaker Series hosted by the Institute of Cosmology, Subatomic … Read more
Professor Yosuke Kanai has recently published a paper in Physical Review Letters (PRL), the issue 11/2023, which has been selected as an Editor’s Suggestion and featured in Physics Magazine of the American Physical Society (APS). This week’s issue of Physical … Read more
One of our recent physics graduates, Tyler Kay, has been recognized for his outstanding work at the 2023 SPIE Medical Imaging conference in San Diego recently. Tyler’s poster presentation on his undergraduate research project completed at UNC, “Comparing multi-view synthetic … Read more
The NC Museum of Natural Science in Raleigh is a weekend destination for many families and science lovers. But visitors to the museum the weekend of Jan. 28-29 had an even more fantastic experience as Astronomy Days returned offline … Read more
This week’s issue of Physical Review Letters (PRL) features the article “Search for the Majorana Nature of Neutrinos in the Inverted Mass Ordering Region with KamLAND-Zen” with Professor Hugon Karwowski and Dr Aobo Li as its co-authors. The piece … Read more
On January 9th, 2023, the Department of Physics and Astronomy held a colloquium on Measurements of Fission Product Yields Using Monoenergetic Neutron and Gamma-ray Beams in honor of Professor Hugon Karwowski on the occasion of his retirement. The colloquium celebrated Karwowski … Read more
