Sentences with phrase «massive as protons»

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

The particles, named DS3 * (2860)-- and DS1 * (2860)-- , are about three times as massive as protons (arxiv.org/abs/1407.7574 and arxiv.org/abs/1407.7712).

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All told, ISS - CREAM can distinguish electrons, protons and atomic nuclei as massive as iron as they crash through the instruments.

They are known as WIMPs (for weakly interacting massive particles), and if they exist, these particles have masses tens or hundreds of times greater than that of a proton but interact so weakly with ordinary matter that they're difficult to detect.