Sentences with phrase «called pions»
The resulting proton beam would then be fired at a carbon and copper target to generate particles called pions, some of which decay into antineutrinos.
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When the electrons, protons, muons and pions of the air shower run through the tubs of water, the particles give off a little burst of light called Cherenkov radiation.
In 1942 Sakata and Takeshi Inoue suggested that Anderson and Neddermeyer had not seen Yukawa's particle but instead had seen a lighter object, now called a muon, which came from the decay of the true Yukawa particle, the pion.
First, a number of sensational discoveries were made by two English groups; the identification of the pion (by Powell) and the so - called V particles or kaons (by Rochester and Butler) led many nuclear physicists to turn to the study of cosmic rays.