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Quirky Quarks Inside Neutron Stars
SDSU astrophysicist Fridolin Weber developed a model that predicts deconfined, or free, quarks can exist within the super-dense insides of a neutron star. You can’t see them, but everything inside of you and around you is full of quarks—elementary particles which constitute matter’s most fundamental building blocks. The quarks are generally bound up into composite…
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News: SDSU Physics Welcomes New Faculty
The Physics Department is very happy to welcome Dr. Lyube Kuznetsova as our newest faculty member. Lyuba was chosen from a pool of extremely competitive list of over 90 applicants. Lyuba comes with an impeccable pedigree: her PhD is from Cornell University and she has competed post-doctoral training at Harvard and Brown Universities. Lyuba is…
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News: Professor Stephen Roeder wins Monty Award
The San Diego State University Alumni Association recently announced the Awards for Outstanding Faculty Contributions to the university, more commonly known as the Montys. Professor Steve Roeder has had a distinguished career at San Diego State University since he joined as an Assistant Professor in Physics in 1968. He has the distinction of being a…
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High Resolution Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Morphological variability of human tibia from high resolution magnetic resonance imaging data from 10 subjects. Potential applications are in detection of deviations from normal anatomy and the creation of bone models for knee replacement surgeries.
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Ultrafast Lasers
Colored rings of light are generated with a femtosecond supercontinuum source and an axicon, then captured with a long exposure digital image. In this photo, a supercontinuum source (lower right) emits a bright beam which traverses to the left. It passes through an axicon (lower left), which generates the circular beam pattern. The beam then…
