Sentences with phrase «hypothetical particles called»

Scientists at Gran Sasso needed the cerium for a search — now called off — for hypothetical particles called sterile neutrinos.

Among the new studies, the most exotic scenario investigated was the possibility that dark matter might consist of hypothetical particles called axions or other particles with similar properties.

According to our best cosmological theories, dark matter is made of hypothetical particles called WIMPs (weakly interacting massive particles).

SOLE POLE Scientists are searching for hypothetical particles called magnetic monopoles, which have a single north or south magnetic pole.

Hypothetical particles called magnetic monopoles, envisioned in the wider illustration, would possess only a north or south pole.

The result, reported April 13 in Science, casts doubt on hypothetical particles called dark photons and other potential oddities.

The existence of hypothetical particles called magnetic monopoles would explain why electric charge comes in integer multiples of the charge of an electron instead of a continuous range of values, Emily Conover reported in «Magnets with a single pole are still giving physicists the slip» (SN: 2/3/18, p. 10).

The result, reported April 13 in Science, casts doubt on hypothetical particles called dark photons and...

The prevailing theory is that a short - lived quantum field, mediated by a hypothetical particle called an inflaton, pushed the universe's rapid growth.

In this case, a hypothetical particle called a graviton — which mediates gravity — appears in large numbers out of the vacuum of space in regions crowded with massive objects such as stars.

Not exact matches

The disruption of experiments at Geneva's Large Hadron Collider — by a piece of baguette, no less — has temporarily set back research into the nature's most elusive element: a hypothetical subatomic particle called Higgs boson.

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 matter.

The LHC has just the right energy to search for a hypothetical dark particle called a WIMP, or weakly interacting massive particle.

EVERY AXION HAS ITS DAY Physicist Gray Rybka of the University of Washington in Seattle and colleagues have created a detector sensitive enough to potentially find hypothetical dark matter particles called axions.

He's been thinking about how to use all sorts of particles — including neutrinos and hypothetical entities called axions — to co

Higher energies at the new LHC could boost the production of hypothetical supersymmetric particles called gluinos by a factor of 60, increasing the odds of finding it.

The 650 computers in the instrument will track the particles» trajectory, speed, and energy, which the device's designers hope will provide insights into mysterious forms of matter, including antimatter, dark matter, and a hypothetical family of particles called strangelets.

In quantum gravity, the hypothetical force - carrying particles are called gravitons.

A second experiment may have spotted hypothetical dark matter particles called WIMPs, but its leader's take - no - prisoners attitude has competitors steaming.

Massive gravity, for example — a theory of gravity that assigns a mass to a hypothetical elementary particle called a graviton — still holds a sliver of possibility if the graviton has a very slight mass.