Sentences with phrase «energy photons called»

Launched in June and designed to detect high - energy photons called gamma rays, Fermi is actually a sophisticated particle detector that serves just as well to detect electrons and positrons.

Two seconds after the gravitational signal, which only the automated «trigger» of the Hanford detector initially noticed, NASA's orbiting Fermi Gamma - ray Space Telescope picked up a blast of high - energy photons called a gamma ray burst.

China is joining the elite club of countries that have equipped researchers with the potent sources of high - energy photons called free electron lasers (FELs).

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4) then photons erupted from this energy 4) let there be LIGHT (1 - 4 all the first day) cloud (detectable today as the microwave background radiation) 5) photons and other particles form the 5) God next creates the heavens (what we call the sky) above bodies of the early universe (atoms, (2nd day) molecules, stars, planets, galaxies) 6) it rained on the early earth until it was 6) dry land appears as the oceans form (3rd day) cool enough for oceans to form 7) the first life form was blue green bacteria.

The existing theory of light as waves failed to explain the effect, but Einstein provided a neat solution by suggesting light came in discrete packages of energy called photons — a brain wave that won him the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921.

Rather, they would consist of discrete fragments — quanta, in the argot of physics — just as light is composed of individual bundles of energy called photons.

If even a small amount of energy from phonons (the sound units that carry the energy through the germanium or silicon, much as photons are the units of light) hit the detector, it can be enough to make the device lose superconductivity and register a potential dark matter event through a device called a superconducting quantum interference device, or SQUID.

The insight that light sometimes needs to be treated as an electromagnetic wave and sometimes as a stream of energy quanta called photons is as old as quantum physics.

This was the paper in which he proposed that light is concentrated in traveling energy packets, which later came to be called photons.

Part of the difficulty is a process called photoionization, in which the high - energy photons conveying the x-rays strip away electrons from atoms within the accretion disk.

The low - energy photons that interact with protons to produce neutrinos in these events simultaneously prevent high - energy gamma rays from escaping via a process called «two - photon annihilation.»

More important, a convergence of observations suggests that cosmic neutrinos spring from the same astrophysical sources as other particles from space: highly energetic photons called gamma rays, and mysterious ultra-high energy cosmic rays — protons and heavier atomic nuclei that reach energies a million times higher than humans have achieved with particle accelerators.

When two deuterium atoms fuse in his experiments, they produce helium - 4 together with energy, in the form of photons and lattice vibrations called «phonons».

It is expected to operate for 10 years, observing high - energy gamma - ray photons from violent supermassive black holes and mysterious cosmic explosions called gamma - ray bursts.

So for years, physicists have chased an elusive dream: replacing the physical kilogram with a standard inherent in properties of nature such as the speed of light, the wavelength of photons and the Planck constant (also called h - bar), which links the energy a wave carries with its frequency of oscillation.

When this so - called spin - blockaded biexciton state relaxes to a lower energy level, it leaves behind a dark exciton while emitting a photon.

Off the coast of west Africa, perched on the highest point of the Canary Islands, a gamma - ray telescope called MAGIC — the name stands for the Major Atmospheric Gamma - ray Imaging Cherenkov telescope — scans the heavens for bursts of high - energy photons from far corners of the universe.

«The microscope was tested for its spatial resolution, the presence of chromatic aberrations, and long - term stability using a fine test pattern called a Siemens star and a photon energy of approximately 10 keV,» explains Professor Kazuto Yamauchi of Osaka University's Center for Ultra-Precision Science and Technology.

In so - called organic LEDs, organic molecules excited by electricity shed their extra energy by giving off photons, a process called fluorescence.

On December 15, the LHC's two largest particle detectors, called ATLAS and CMS, both reported an unexpected excess of pairs of photons with a combined energy of 750 gigaelectronvolts (GeV).

An exposure to UVB - Damage will cause a autofluorescence compound to be made called melanin, this is from dissipating photon energy quickly with sunscreen users getting health consequences.

To harvest the lost solar energy, we develop a solid - state device that turns infrared photons into visible ones, a phenomenon called photon upconversion.

To study the mineral, the researchers developed and applied a novel technique, called X-ray Magnetic Circular Dichroism (XMCD) at the Advanced Photon Source, a high - energy synchrotron facility.

It wasn't until some of the work of Einstein, a century ago, and some of the great people to follow on from him, that it was realised that light is quantised and made up of these little bundles of energy called photons - and the study of that is photonics.

We call it photonics because the photon is the smallest unit of light, like little bundles of energy that make up light.

A number of infinitesimally small, dust devil — like energy vortices called quarks and photons collectively make up the structure of the atom.

Ultra Necrozma is a Psychic / Dragon Type Pokémon with a new Z - Move called «Light That Burns the Sky» (if Photon Geyser is learned), which gathers together light energy until it can accumulate no more and unleashes it all.

In the particular instance of so - called back radiation the reality is that if you point an IR spectrometer up at the night sky photons of far higher energy than the cosmic microwave background are hitting it.