Sentences with phrase «into pairs of photons»

The Higgs boson's decay into pairs of photons — the strongest yet most confusing clue to the particle's existence — is looking utterly normal after all.

The Higgs boson's decay into pairs of photons — the strongest but most confusing clue to the particle's existence — is looking utterly normal after all.

One way it made itself known two years ago at CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) near Geneva, Switzerland, was by decaying into pairs of photons.

One way it made itself known at CERN's Large Hadron Collider near Geneva, Switzerland, two years ago was by decaying into pairs of photons.

The ATLAS team also announced new results from analysing the Higgs boson's rate of decay into pairs of photons.

One of the most intriguing oddities to surface in 2012 was that the new particle appeared to decay into pairs of photon more often than our current best theory, the standard model, predicts the Higgs should.

This has been one of the most popular explanations among physicists because the decay into a pair of photons is one of the signatures of the Higgs.

Not exact matches

Once inside, photons can spontaneously split into entangled pairs of photons.

The Higgs is not detected directly, but via the things it decays into, such as pairs of photons or particles called Z bosons.

As soon as you measure one of the entangled photons in a detector and find that its polarization — that is, the orientation of its waves — is horizontal, the other one in the pair is instantly projected into a horizontal state.

According to quantum mechanics, photons can briefly transform into transient pairs of electrically charged particles and antiparticles — such as an electron and a positron — before reverting back to photons.

To do that, they studied the decay of the Higgs into familiar particles, such as a pair of photons or a pair of massive particles called Z bosons.

Their powerful magnetic field lines accelerate electrons to high speeds, causing them to collide with photons, which split into pairs of electrons and...

Photons reflected back from the mirror would represent Hawking radiation — the observable effect when one half of a virtual particle pair falls into an event horizon and the other escapes.

Not only do the experiments prove that the phenomenon of entanglement is strong enough to persist even in experiments that may one day be carried out on a satellite or an accelerated spacecraft, they also suggests quantum mechanical entanglement of photon pairs can be tested while the particles undergo relativistic acceleration — conditions under which attempts to unify quantum mechanics and relativity into an overarching «theory of everything» can be made.

For other reasons, at LTE, the transmission (of a given type of photon) is the same in a pair of opposite directions, so in the absence of scattering, emissivity and absorptivity must each be the same for opposite directions across the same path of material, and thus they will be the same for absorption of photons from a direction and emission of photons into the opposite direction.