Sentences with phrase «from wimps»

The two events have characteristics consistent with those expected from WIMPs (PDF).

There, shielded from most sources of contaminating radiation, researchers have spent more than a year's worth of time looking for flashes of light emanating from WIMPs striking xenon nuclei.

There, shielded from most sources of contaminating noise, researchers have spent more than a year's worth of time looking for flashes of light emanating from WIMPs striking xenon nuclei.

However, it also provides sufficient structure to stop you from wimping out or falling into bad habits.

Not exact matches

The detector material is surrounded by arrays of photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) to capture the light from potential WIMP interactions.

I swear I learn so much from you:) I think all Scandi's must be chilli wimps cos Panu is also a massive chilli wimp!

You often wonder what goes on in the head of Wenger when he gives interviews and press conferences sometimes... yes, we have come from behind to win the title twice but we did that with group of players who just refuse to lie down and die, unless the present squad populated by nice guys and wimps who don't need a 2nd invitation to throw in the towel, players who are not in the least ashamed of celebrating mediocrity with silly selfies and garbage sound bites....

But Jonathan Feng, at the University of California in Irvine, says this may be because WIMPs could scatter differently from xenon nuclei.

The surprising findings come as physicists wrestle with conflicting results from experiments designed to detect dark matter directly on Earth (see «The ongoing WIMP war»).

It's probably a relic particle from the Big Bang, a member of a family of particles that we've named weakly interacting massive particles, or WIMPs.

The rock blocks cosmic rays — high - energy particles from space that could mimic a WIMP's arrival.

Its long burial beneath seafloor sediments isolated it from cosmic rays that could have triggered WIMP - masking radioactivity within the lead.

Most WIMP detectors are placed deep underground to shield them from background radiation that can cloud that signal.

One of the latest null results in the search for WIMPs came from the Large Underground Xenon (LUX) experiment, a third of a ton of liquid xenon held at a frosty — 100 degrees Celsius inside a giant water - filled tank buried one and a half kilometers beneath the Black Hills of South Dakota.

There are a few dark - matter candidates besides WIMPs, but all of them have to be similarly slow - moving to produce the kind of clumpy distribution that astronomers infer from dark matter's gravitational pull.

«You'll want to look at directionality, see where the WIMPs are coming from,» Sadoulet says.

Particle physicists predict that the number of neutralinos left over from the Big Bang roughly matches the expected amount of dark matter, making the neutralino the prime WIMP candidate.

Theorists suggest that WIMPs are anywhere from 40 to 1,000 times as massive as protons.

Some models predict that EGB gamma rays could arise from distant interactions of dark matter particles, such as the annihilation or decay of WIMPs.

The most important dark matter candidates are weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs), which are stable relic particles from the big bang.

This effect can shift the date of the maximum number of collisions by anything from a few days up to several months, depending on the WIMPs» mass and speed (Physical Review Letters, DOI: 10.1103 / PhysRevLett.112.011301).

To explain the current abundance of dark matter in the universe (as inferred from galactic observations and other data), the rate of annihilation, which governs how often WIMPs were produced in the early universe as well as how often they annihilate now, must fall within a narrow range.

Unfortunately, it's impossible to tell from looking at cancer cells if they're wimps or killers, so 80 of the 100 men with prostate cancer choose surgery or radiation treatment, either right away or after first trying «active surveillance» (frequent PSA tests, exams, biopsies).

But astronomers hope that some may come from the annihilation of weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs), a class of particles that may make up dark matter.

Though far from established, the most likely dark matter candidates are huge particles called weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) or much lighter axion particles.

Early on, two teams had spied a telltale anomaly in the subatomic wreckage: an excess of energy from proton collisions that hinted at new physics perhaps produced by WIMPs (or, to be fair, many additional exotic possibilities).

The Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (CDMS), buried half a mile deep in an old Minnesota iron mine to shield it from cosmic rays, searches for collisions between dark - matter particles called WIMPS and ordinary atoms in 19 hockey - puck - size hunks of germanium.

This type of particle is a WIMP (weakly interacting massive particle), one of the most promising candidates for dark matter, and comes from theories in which the universe has extra spatial dimensions.

«It turns out that the WIMP miracle isn't as miraculous as we once thought,» says Jonathan Feng, a dark matter theorist from the University of California, Irvine.

Far from being heavyweight couch potatoes, WIMPs are turning out to be lively flyweights with a mass of 10 GeV — just a tenth of that expected.

So, in theory, any gamma ray bursts coming from colliding dark matter particles — the Weakly Interacting Massive particles (WIMPs)-- should be clearly visible.

The putative mass of the WIMP particles that CoGeNT possibly has detected ranges from six to 10 billion electron volts, or approximately seven times the mass of a proton.

We are studying a radically new concept which will search for weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) from satellites rather than underground.

WIMPs, on the other hand, would constitute a radically different form of matter left over from the big bang.

Derenzo and his colleague wrote that despite overwhelming evidence for dark matter, recent large - scale experiments designed to detect nuclear recoils from dark matter particles with masses of WIMPs have not yet seen a definitive signal.

Sarma Melngailis, One Lucky Duck: Rob Trujillo and all the other guys from Metallica... proof that vegan isn't just for wimps.

I am too much of a wimp to expose large amounts of bare skin directly to the cold and I hate getting shoe bites from close toed shoes on my bare feet, so going hose-less is not an option.

Beautiful Russian women from all corners of the former Soviet Union seek.25 - 45 Sharps is sort of like Wimp Lo.

If you're not convinced, check it the famous Wimp Lo scene, which is one of my favorite from the film.

She seemed a bit of a wimp & didn't deserve the adoration from Tony her Italian - American beau.

Far be it from this critic to spoil a cliffhanger, let's just say, that wimps still rule in this upside - down universe where it's cool to be square!

Sandler plays a mama's boy and wimp from the bayou.

Draw parallels, if you will, to the transformation of Sarah Connor from mop - topped wimp to muscle - bound chick - man in Cameron's «Terminator» movies, and you're on the right lines.

Her excuse for her affair is neglect from Bolek, who is such a passive wimp that one can not connect with his sadness and frustration.

The racing - style, 14.6 - inch, floating brake discs with six - piston Brembo calipers deliver predictable (not sudden) bite from the Brembo SPS - 1000 brake pads, and the 20 - inch Michelins will not wimp out in the corners.

Here's what they had to say: From the first page to the last I was completely engaged with the characters and the story line, and at 390 pages this one is no wimp.

Full disclosure, I am somewhat of a wimp when it comes to horror games (I can't handle the stress); however, there was something about my playthroughs of F.E.A.R that compelled me to keep going, even after screaming when something killed me from behind and the ensuing wiping off the embarrassing amount of sweat from my forehead.

Build Strike comes with the BGM «wimp ft. Lil» Fang (from FAKY)».

From past experience with Assetto Corsa I knew that it would be suicidal to turn off all of the assists, and now knowing the car or track too well, I wimped out and stuck with the automatic gears.

EPA can regulate fine particles from smokestacks and exhaust pipes, but not CO2 if IPCC wimps away.