Sentences with phrase «as axions»

Others focus more on runner - up particles, such as axions or sterile neutrinos.

New research suggests that the oddity could hint at the presence of hypothetical particles known as axions.

However, cosmologists soon realised that the dark matter could be made of even more exotic things: supersymmetric particles such as the gravitino or photino, for example, or oscillating scalar fields such as the axion.

Not exact matches

As China's import restrictions see levels of waste plastic rise in the UK, Keith Freegard, Director of Axion Polymers, argues that low - grade materials should be landfilled rather than burnt for energy.

The Axion Dark Matter eXperiment, started at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory before moving to the University of Washington, seeks the subtle signatures — just a trillionth of a trillionth of a watt — left by axions as they're snagged by a strong magnetic field.

Elsewhere in the issue, you can see how science is working on new breeding and distribution techniques to save the coral reefs; a way to gain a better understanding of dark matter through the search for whether axion particles exist; a probe into the cause and solutions for the toxic condition of social disconnection, also known as loneliness; and even how to elucidate the long - sought origins of how snakes got their slither.

But, as with the preference for WIMPs over axions and sterile neutrinos, some physicists suspect the widespread distaste for modified gravity is at least partially due to the sociology of scientists rather than the scientific process itself.

This means some of the gamma rays coming from NGC 1275 could convert into axions — and potentially back again — as they make their way to us.

Presently the experiment is being redesigned to prove residual axions from the time of the Big Bang as well as particles of dark energy in the future.

University of Washington physicists Leslie Rosenberg (right) and Gray Rybka examine the experiment package as it is positioned above the bore of a large superconducting magnet, two primary components of the detector being used in the Axion Dark Matter Experiment.

Axions, if they in fact do exist, are candidates for the makeup of cold dark matter that would act as that gravitational glue.

The axion was first conjectured by physicists in the late 1970s as a solution to a problem in a theory called quantum chromodynamics.

Axions, if they in fact do exist, are candidates for the makeup of cold dark matter that would act as that

However, they are also slow - moving, and so axions are labelled alongside WIMPs as «cold» dark matter.

Another NES update, Super Metroid is cited as an influence on titles such as Castlevania: Symphony of the Night and (more recently) Axion Verge.