Outreach resources
Institute of Cosmos Sciences & Department of Quantum Physics and Astrophysics
University of Barcelona
At the end of the First World War, physicist Ernest Rutherford carried out a series of experiments consisting on bombing nitrogen atoms with alpha particles. He saw the appearance of a radiation which was less ionizing than those particles and with a greater range.
The night of October 22-23, 2019, a new instrument installed in a telescope in Arizona made its first light observation pointing its 5,000 eyes of optical spectra to the cosmos. The device, which will observe a record figure of galaxies and quasars, tested its unique vobservation of the Universe.
Astrophysicists point to a crack in the standard model of Cosmology. The precision of new observational results on the early and late Universe have increased and researchers suggest the requirement of new physics to fit the new data. This is the main conclusion of a study published in Nature Astronomy and signed by researchers from the University of Barcelona, the University of California (United States) and the Johns Hopkins University (Maryland, United States).
Link with the article on Agenda Pública
Raúl Jiménez Tellado, ICREA professor at the Institute of Cosmos Sciences and Luis Moreno Fernández, research professor at the IInstituto de Políticas y Bienes Públicos (CSIC) comment in this article on "Public Agenda" of "El País" the news about the Quantum supremacy solution fear part of the google portal and analyze the possible implications.
In this outreach talk on dark energy, we'll explore the depths of the universe to understand one of its greatest mysteries.
In 2015, a new window was opened to observe the universe: the first signal of gravitational waves was detected on Earth. What are gravitational waves?
In this talk, we will review the history of nuclear physics.
Here you will find documents with information about Timepix, the manual of the PixetPro program and a small introduction to the nuclear physics, among others.
In this section you can find different data obtained with the Timepix detector in different situations. You must download the zip file corresponding to the data and unzip it.
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