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Fermi

A unit of length equivalent to one-one quadrillionth of one meter.

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Slatyer is now improving on data mining techniques to better detect dark matter in the Fermi data, along with other astrophysical open data.

MIT - Data-mining for dark matter

Caption: EXCESSIVE BEHAVIOR The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has imaged the whole high-energy sky, pictured here in the background.

The origin of the Milky Way's mysterious gamma rays

The University of Michigan put the possible death toll caused by an accident at Fermi 1 as high as 65,000 people.

"This is a class I emergency": the Fermi 1 accident

A diligent student with a photographic memory, Fermi's brilliance and curiosity led him to teach himself physics, beginning as a teenager when he read a 900-page text published in 1840--in Latin.

The little match's momentous legacy

The spin-up DOS is mainly distributed below the Fermi level.

Effect of (0001) Strain on the Electronic and Magnetic Properties of the Half-Metallic Ferromagnet [Fe.sub.2]Si

At this quirky dimension, the chemical potential of both, the Fermi and Bose ideal gases, decreases monotonically with temperature essentially in the same functional way [54], being different only by an additive constant, expressly, the Fermi energy.

Thermodynamics of Low-Dimensional Trapped Fermi Gases

Scientists gathered a sample of nearly 900 Fermi TGFs accurately located by ground networks, which can pinpoint the location of lightning discharges -- and the corresponding signals from TGFs -- to within 6 miles (10 km) anywhere on the globe.

Fermi Helps Scientists Study Gamma-ray Thunderstorms

Caption: The Fermi satellite has discovered instances of gamma rays coming from novas (two shown).

Gamma rays stump astronomers: how novas generate flashes of high-energy light unclear

Enrico Fermi (1901-1954) was born in Rome and was awarded a doctorate at the University of Pisa.

Science, art, and the discovery of nuclear fission

"Since the era of the EGRET instrument on the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory in the 1990s, it has been discussed whether outbursts of radio emission are physically connected to similar events occurring at gamma rays" Anton Zensus, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy (MPIfR) and Fermi Affiliated Scientist said.

'Violent' gamma-ray outbursts near supermassive black holes

According to this, their microscopic description is still an open problem: non Fermi-liquid response, quantum criticality, pseudogap formation, ill-defined Fermi surface, kinks in the electronic dispersion, and so forth still remain unexplained (or at least controversially debated) anomalous features [84-87].

Composite operator method analysis of the underdoped cuprates puzzle

In this volume, physicists from the US and Europe examine ultracold Bose and Fermi gases at a level appropriate for a first-year graduate student or a non-specialist physicist.