Sentences with phrase «beam of particles»

A higher repetition rate is also key to using a high - power laser to drive beams of particles.

Instead of a black hole, it left behind a rotating neutron star, or pulsar, that spins 30 times a second and shoots beams of particles from its poles.

One dramatic consequence is that some of the star's material, stripped from the star and collected around the black hole, can be ejected in extremely narrow beams of particles at speeds approaching the speed of light.

«We used these techniques to observe the pattern formed by beams of particles shot through powder samples of the superconductors under a range of temperatures and other conditions to see if there's a structural change that corresponds to the formation of this special type of nematic state,» said Ben Frandsen, a graduate student in physics at Columbia and first author on the paper.

In December 2011, Health Secretary Andrew Lansley announced plans to invest up to # 150 million in procuring the new cutting - edge «proton beam therapy» (PBT) radiotherapy cancer service, which uses a precision high - energy beam of particles to destroy cancer cells.

A question that's long vexed astrophysicists is how the gargantuan energy fountains called radio - loud quasars propel tight beams of particles and energy across hundreds of thousands of light - years.

At the time of its completion in 1983, the Tevatron was an entirely new kind of collider, the first to use superconducting magnets to steer beams of particles along a circular track.

One of the world's top particle accelerators has reached a milestone, achieving its «first turns» — circulating beams of particles for the first time — and opening a new window into the universe, a view that will give physicists access to a record rate of particle collisions in a tiny volume in space.

The two events mark the device's «first turns» — a milestone when beams of particles are circulated through many revolutions of an accelerator for the first time.

Even minor gusts of solar wind can cause the trapped particles to squirt out the ends of the bottle, sending beams of particles down toward the Earth below.

In most big accelerators, like the one at Fermilab near Chicago or at CERN, two beams of particles at equal energies race through lengths of long, circular pipes in opposite directions before colliding.

Thunderstorms give out powerful blasts of gamma rays and x-rays, shooting beams of particles — and even antimatter — into space.

Laboratory - made neutrino experiments start by accelerating a beam of particles, typically protons, and then smashing them into a target to create neutrinos.

A new kind of tractor beam could use a beam of particles to reel in atoms or molecules, physicists propose in the May 5 Physical Review Letters.

«We scatter a beam of particles on the object and observe the spectrum.

This is the first time anyone has seen electron neutrinos show up in a beam of particles that started off as muon neutrinos.