The Giant Magellan Telescope Organization (GMTO) — along with its international partners including Texas A&M University — today announced the start of hard rock excavation for the Giant Magellan Telescope’s massive concrete pier and the foundations for the telescope’s enclosure on its site at Las Campanas Observatory in Chile. Artist’s rendering of an aerial view […]

Recently, the CDF and DZero collaborations completed an intense effort to combine their asymmetry measurements, carefully taking into account the statistical relationships among them. In addition to producing more precise results, they were able to reconcile the differences among the measurements as well as with updated theoretical predictions. The final set of asymmetry results was […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: Texas A&M University’s Dr. Jennifer Marshall, assistant professor of physics and astronomy, will be presenting a colloquium Tuesday (Oct. 17) on this result from the perspective of both the Dark Energy Survey, in which Texas A&M is an institutional partner, and general astronomy. Marshall’s talk, which will be live streamed at https://ttvn.tamus.edu/, is […]