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Many forefront scientific discoveries involving UC Irvine Physics and Astronomy researchers have recently appeared in the news.

  • The discovery of neutrino oscillations and neutrino mass by the huge underground water neutrino detector Super-Kamiokande is explained at the UCI Super-K Website, due to Dave Casper, with links to other Super-K sites.
  • See also the new article by Hank Sobel in our newsletter.
  • This has also been covered by CNN, and by the New York Times.
  • The UC Irvine Super-K group members are Hank Sobel, Bill Kropp, Leroy Price, Woytek Gajewski, Dave Casper, Michael Smy, Mark Vagins, and Tomasz Barszczak.
  • Congratulations on First K2K Neutrino Event Detected at SuperK
  • New York Times Coverage of K2K, June 29, 1999.

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  • Other research of our department in the news is the  discovery of superfluid drops by  Peter Taborek and Jim Rutledge.
  • Recent research by Tammy Smecker-Hane on spherical dwarf galaxies which are neighbors to our own galaxy concerns spectral measurements for dark matter and their eventual fate.
  • The south pole neutrino detector using Cherenkov radiation of produced muons in deep ice, called AMANDA, has recently been covered by the Orange County Register. The UCI group is led by Steve Barwick.
  • Bill Kropp and others have completed the Chooz Reactor experiment with the most sensitive limits on neutrino oscillations at a nuclear reactor. This group (IMB) along with Kamiokanda in 1987 detected the first neutrinos from a supernova explosion, SN1987A. Recent pictures of the explosion encountering a previously produced ring have been shown by the Hubble space telescope ( CNN).
  • Herbert Hamber has constructed a very fast 64 linked PC node parallel supercomputer for the use of department and school computational research groups that reaches 20 GigaFlop at peak speed, with 8.4 GigaBytes of RAM.
  •  Mark Mandelkern and Jonas Schultz with thesis student Glen Blanford have been detecting anti-hydrogen at a Fermilab experiment.
  • Greg Benford, astro/plasma physicist and a renowned science fiction author has published his 19th book, called COSM, which features the UCI Physics and Astronomy department as its setting. 
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    • Credits for the Physics and Astronomy Website
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    Dennis Silverman, djsilver@uci.edu, and Terri Olsen, tolsen@uci.edu.