Sentences with phrase «for axion»

Within the blog post, Happ talked about the inherent irony of the fact that it took so long for Axion Verge to come to Xbox One since the platform he was initially targeting when he began development on Axiom Verge seven years ago was the Xbox 360.

Those are the SuperCDMS - SNOLAB, which will look for WIMPs, and ADMX - Gen2, which will search for axion particles.

Previous experiments have searched for axions, but those efforts weren't sensitive enough to have a good chance of detecting the particles.

Scientists use the apparatus to search for axions converting into radio waves in a strong magnetic field.

While the new study came up empty, scientists scanned only a small range of frequencies, ruling out some possible masses for axions, from 2.66 to 2.81 microelectron volts.

For axions to explain dark matter, they would need to occupy a relatively narrow range of masses and be far lighter than WIMPs, potentially making them even harder to detect.

Aiichi Iwazaki at Nishogakusha University in Tokyo says that because the early universe was smaller and offered more chances for axions to attract each other, they would have clumped together to form axion «stars».

For axions to explain dark matter, they would need to occupy a relatively narrow range of masses and be far lighter than WIMPs.

A variety of Earth - and space - based observatories are searching for axions, which if they exist, would have been produced during the Big Bang and also would be continuously produced in the interior of our sun.

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.

«Axion is calling for the creation of greater demand for recycled materials in the UK following China's decision to restrict imports of waste paper and plastics.

For the first time, physicists are snooping on some of the likeliest hiding places for hypothetical subatomic particles called axions, which could make up dark mattFor the first time, physicists are snooping on some of the likeliest hiding places for hypothetical subatomic particles called axions, which could make up dark mattfor hypothetical subatomic particles called axions, which could make up dark matter.

The Axion Dark Matter Experiment just entered the most sensitive phase yet in its search for invisible particles to explain the universe's hidden mass

The experiment, housed in a laboratory adjacent to his office at the University of Washington, is a supercooled, magnetized vacuum chamber equipped with a sensitive detector that listens for the microwave «ping» of passing particles called axions.

Axions would produce incredibly feeble signals, so pinning down evidence for the minuscule particles is no easy undertaking.

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.

Beyond WIMPs and dark sectors, sterile neutrinos and axions, there are even more exotic possibilities for dark matter, although they occupy the fringes of physics.

It's crunch time for dark matter if WIMPs don't show If dark matter isn't made of WIMPs, could neutrinos or axions fit the bill?

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.

She finished her Ph.D. in 2003 and has since commenced a science - writing career, working for Toronto - based Axion, a medical communications company.

Beyond WIMPs and dark sectors, sterile neutrinos and axions, there are even more exotic possibilities for dark matter, although they occupy the fringes of physics, including «primordial» black holes, extra dimensions and the possibility that Einstein's theory of gravity is wrong in some way.

That lack of evidence provided impetus to separate the search for dark matter from work on supersymmetry, Rosenberg said, so the newest version of the Axion Dark Matter Experiment is drawing substantial interest among researchers.

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

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

NRAO / CDL technology part of the hunt for the dark matter particle at the Axion Dark Matter Experiment.

New, rigorous constraints on the properties of axions have been imposed by an international team of scientists responsible for the nEDM experiment.

Pivovaroff plans to further develop X-ray optics for solar axion searches.

«While we don't yet know what dark matter is, our results show we can probe axion - like models and provide the strongest constraints to date for certain masses,» Manuel Meyer from Stockholm University, who led the study, said in the statement.

«I think X-ray optics can greatly enhance our ability to detect axions, a leading candidate for dark matter,» he said.

If they existed, axions — one of the candidates for particles of the mysterious dark matter — could interact with the matter forming our world, but they would have to do this to a much, much weaker extent than it has seemed up to now.

«Taken with other Lab activities, including ADMX (axions), LUX / LZ (WIMPs) and searches for primordial black holes, this new work gives LLNL a very strong portfolio of dark matter research.»

Super-cooled quantum detectors have demonstrated the sensitivity needed to detect telltale microwave photons from dark matter axions, if they exist, kicking off the latest high - tech hunt for the elusive particles.