Sentences with phrase «in strong magnetic fields»

The synchrotron X-ray beams, emitted when the electrons change direction in strong magnetic fields, are directed towards the experimental stations that surround the storage ring.
Scientists have developed a highly sensitive sensor to detect tiny changes in strong magnetic fields.
The observations by the Breakthrough Listen team at UC Berkeley using the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia show that the fast radio bursts from this object, called FRB 121102, are nearly 100 percent linearly polarized, an indication that the source of the bursts is embedded in strong magnetic fields like those around a massive black hole.
Kensuke Kobayashi (Professor, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University) and Sadashige Matsuo (Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo), in cooperation with research groups led by Teruo Ono (Professor, Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University) and Kazuhito Tsukagoshi (Research Fellow, International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics, National Institute for Materials Science), produced graphene samples capable of forming p - n junctions by combining gate electrodes and performed precise measurements of current - fluctuation («shot noise») in the graphene p - n junction in the QH regime in the strong magnetic fields and at low temperatures.
Researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute have now demonstrated that before this happens, a new exotic state of the material is created in strong magnetic fields.
Scientists use the apparatus to search for axions converting into radio waves in a strong magnetic field.
That polarization is evidence of «vacuum birefringence,» a quantum effect first predicted 80 years ago caused by light interacting with the vacuum of space in a strong magnetic field.
Light from the star, too faint to be seen in the image above, is polarized due to interactions with the vacuum of space in a strong magnetic field.
But in crystals of an iron - molybdenum oxide, a team led by Kei - Ichiro Kobayashi at the Joint Research Center for Atom Technology in Tsukuba, Japan, saw a 10 % drop in resistance when they placed the material in a strong magnetic field, considerably more than the one seen in comparable materials.
However, when bismuth ferrite is placed in a strong magnetic field (greater than a certain critical value), the structure is destroyed and this is accompanied by the emergence of a linear ME effect (when polarization is linearly proportional to the applied field).
The circular rings in the center - left of the image are supernova remnants caught in the strong magnetic field of the galaxy's core.
These defects «pin» in place, or trap, the microscopic magnetic vortices that form when the superconductor is placed in a strong magnetic field, such as those generated by magnets in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machines.
Physicists had long suspected that the energy spectrum of an electron in a strong magnetic field is, mathematically, a fractal known as a Cantor set — a poser that came to be called the «10 - martini problem» after a bounty that was offered for its solution.
In greatly simplified terms: In a strong magnetic field, radiowaves excite the nuclear spins of the zymonic acid to oscillation.
(The jets are streams of energetic electrons moving in a strong magnetic field and unleashing radio energy).
When a molecule or compound with an unpaired electron is placed in a strong magnetic field, the spin of the unpaired electron can align in two
When a molecule or compound with an unpaired electron is placed in a strong magnetic field, the spin of the unpaired electron can align in two Another dating method using electron spin resonance (ESR)-- also known as electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR)-- is based on the measurement of
When a molecule or compound with an unpaired electron is placed in a strong magnetic field, the spin of the unpaired electron can align in two Singlet Oxygen: Generation and Properties Leonard I. Grossweiner Wenske Laser Center, Advocate / Ravenswood Hospital Medical Center 4550 N. Winchester Avenue
The impedance of a planar coil suspended on a torsion beam and placed in a strong magnetic field is analyzed.

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The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor program in the south of France will use magnetic fusion and employ strong magnetic fields to hold and fuse hydrogen plasma.
Infrared light is a good probe of the magnetic field because stronger magnetic fields change the way light is emitted in that range.
Scientists don't fully understand what's driving Jupiter's strongest auroras, but data gathered by the orbiting Juno spacecraft hint that the electrons generating Jupiter's polar glows may be accelerated by turbulent waves in the planet's magnetic field — a process somewhat akin to surfers being driven shoreward ahead of breaking ocean waves, the researchers report today in Nature.
Occasional «storms» in the core are strong enough to flip the polarity of the magnetic field, although the process of reversal is usually quite slow, taking 3,000 to 10,000 years.
Now, scientists using the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) say they may have observed this effect in the light coming from a neutron star — a cosmic object with a very strong magnetic field.
In 1930, physicists Werner Heisenberg and Hans Heinrich Euler predicted that very strong magnetic fields could change the polarity of light waves in a vacuum (where polarity refers to the orientation of the light's electric and magnetic fieldsIn 1930, physicists Werner Heisenberg and Hans Heinrich Euler predicted that very strong magnetic fields could change the polarity of light waves in a vacuum (where polarity refers to the orientation of the light's electric and magnetic fieldsin a vacuum (where polarity refers to the orientation of the light's electric and magnetic fields).
Vacuum birefringence «can be detected only in the presence of enormously strong magnetic fields, such as those around neutron stars,» study co-author Roberto Turolla, a scientist at the University of Padua in Italy, said in the statement.
For example, scientists don't understand why the magnetic field is as strong as it is, or why the field reverses polarity — the North Pole becomes the South Pole and vice versa — every several hundreds of thousands of years, briefly vanishing in between.
The trick was performed using a strong magnetic field that distorts the movement of electrons in water molecules, which in turn produces a magnetic field opposing the one applied.
This refutes some claims that FRBs are produced in dense environments with strong magnetic fields.
«Chaotic magnetic field lines may answer the coronal heating problem: Scientists show how chaotic magnetic field lines result in stronger current sheets and extreme heating of the sun's corona.»
Neutron stars, the extraordinarily dense stellar bodies created when massive stars collapse, are known to host the strongest magnetic fields in the universe — as much as a billion times more powerful than any human - made electromagnet.
In research machines such as fusion reactors, scientists use strong magnetic fields to confine plasma, but those fields interfere with seeing what might happen during a natural dynamo.
In an experiment in Grenoble, France, scientists have forced a strong magnetic field onto the flowing sodiuIn an experiment in Grenoble, France, scientists have forced a strong magnetic field onto the flowing sodiuin Grenoble, France, scientists have forced a strong magnetic field onto the flowing sodium.
Particulate matter in Earth's atmosphere is largely spared from the solar winds by our planet's strong magnetic field, something Venus lacks.
But Michilli points out that in order to drive such strong magnetic fields, the supernova remnant would have to be a million times brighter than even the brightest remnant in the Milky Way, the Crab nebula (SN: 1/1/11, p. 11).
The spots are planet - sized regions in which strong magnetic fields become tangled.
The latest observations, reported online January 10 in Nature and at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society, suggest the bursts are coming from an environment with an unusually strong magnetic field.
Neutron stars, the extraordinarily dense stellar bodies created when massive stars collapse, are known to host the strongest magnetic fields in the universe — as much as a billion times more powerful than any man - made electromagnet.
The star's magnetic field, trillions of times stronger than Earth's, is thought to have triggered an enormous starquake that released more energy than the sun emits in 200 millennia.
In a recent paper published in EPJ H, Fritz Wagner from the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics in Germany, gives a historical perspective outlining how our gradual understanding of improved confinement regimes for what are referred to as toroidal fusion plasmas — confined in a donut shape using strong magnetic fields — have developed since the 1980In a recent paper published in EPJ H, Fritz Wagner from the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics in Germany, gives a historical perspective outlining how our gradual understanding of improved confinement regimes for what are referred to as toroidal fusion plasmas — confined in a donut shape using strong magnetic fields — have developed since the 1980in EPJ H, Fritz Wagner from the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics in Germany, gives a historical perspective outlining how our gradual understanding of improved confinement regimes for what are referred to as toroidal fusion plasmas — confined in a donut shape using strong magnetic fields — have developed since the 1980in Germany, gives a historical perspective outlining how our gradual understanding of improved confinement regimes for what are referred to as toroidal fusion plasmas — confined in a donut shape using strong magnetic fields — have developed since the 1980in a donut shape using strong magnetic fields — have developed since the 1980s.
Rocks below the surface in those spots might contain remanent magnetism from early in the Moon's history, when its magnetic field was much stronger than it is now.
What makes this model unique is that a magnet in the center of the inner sphere provides a strong magnetic field, while the rotation of this core drives the flow of the conducting liquid very effectively.
In 2014, Weiss» group analyzed other ancient meteorites that formed within the solar system's first 2 to 3 million years, and found evidence of a magnetic field that was about 10 - 100 times stronger — about 5 - 50 microtesla.
Under these conditions, the liquid sodium is subjected to a strong magnetic field and to fast rotation, as would be expected in Earth's core, and undergoes both large - scale motion and random fluctuations.
She was even more surprised by new measurements of Jupiter's magnetic field, which is the strongest in the solar system.
In general, if the charged particles from a CME hit Earth's magnetosphere head on and the ejection has a strong magnetic field pointing south, then the disruptive effects are greater, Gombosi says.
If a neutron star is left, it may have a very strong magnetic field and rotate extremely quickly, emitting a beam of light that can be observed when the beam points towards Earth, in much the same way as a lighthouse beam sweeping past an observer.
The jets could be the result of a magnetic field produced by charged ions swirling around in the gas but it wasn't clear whether the field was strong enough.
If we have a laser with the right wavelength, the electrons will oscillate and a strong magnetic field will form in the gap area.
Later on in life, it looks like the magnetars we see in our galaxy, which have extremely strong magnetic fields but rotate more like ordinary pulsars.»
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