Sentences with phrase «axions into»

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Scientists use the apparatus to search for axions converting into radio waves in 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.

An intriguing aspect of axion - like particles is their ability to convert into gamma rays and back again when they interact with strong magnetic fields.

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.

A team of international scientists from the project CERN Axion Solar Telescope (CAST) at the European research center CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, including Prof. Dr. Horst Fischer from the Institute of Physics at the University of Freiburg, have set strict limits to the probability that axions turn into photons.

Only after it is determined that axions turn into photons can researchers determine the portion of particles in dark matter.

Another class of possible dark matter candidate particles are axions — particles that scientists believe are capable of converting into gamma rays and back again when they interact with strong magnetic fields.