Unprecedented gift boosts basic physics in Canada

Gluon-initiated associated production boosts Higgs physics

Article is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use. The MIT Faculty has made this article openly available. Please share how this access benefits you. Your story matters. Analyses of boosted Higgs bosons from associated production comprise some of the main search channels for the Higgs...

A year of unprecedented progress in Down syndrome basic research.

The years 2006 and 2007 saw the publication of three new and different approaches to prevention or amelioration of Down syndrome effects on the brain and cognition. We describe the animal model systems that were critical to this progress, review these independent breakthrough studies, and discuss the implications for therapeutic approaches suggested by each.

Star formation : basic physics

NewtonianTalk: Integration of Physics Playground and AutoTutor using GIFT

Despite the popularity of games, there has been limited peerreviewed literature published on game-based learning for science. This paper will describe a project that combined an Intelligent Tutoring System (AutoTutor) with a physics game called Physics Playground. As part of this integration we used the Generalized Intelligent Framework for Tutoring (GIFT) to manage communication between the tw...

Chapter 2 . Basic Atomic Physics

A highly excited hydrogen atom in a strong magnetic field, the so-called "diamagnetic hydrogen atom," is among the simplest nonseparable systems in quantum mechanics. Understanding it can provide a key to the more general aspects of nonseparable systems. The problem is also attracting attention in the context of nonlinear dynamics because its classical behavior displays a transition from orderl...