Sentences with phrase «massless subatomic particles»

Their government has given the green light and $ 235 million funding to build the India - based Neutrino Observatory (INO), the country's first underground laboratory to study the weakly interacting, nearly massless subatomic particles.

Theorists had predicted that neutrinos, nearly massless subatomic particles that barely interact with matter, should be released during the core collapse, and in no small quantity.

Not exact matches

In a nutshell, the Higgs field is what makes some particles (like protons and neutrons) relatively heavy, others (like electrons) subatomic lightweights, and still others (like photons) utterly massless.

For decades, physicists thought that the subatomic particles called neutrinos were, in fact, the massless particles that Weyl had predicted — a possibility that was ultimately eliminated by the 1998 discovery that neutrinos do have a small mass.

Chargeless, nearly massless and rarely seen interacting with matter, the subatomic particles known as neutrinos have proved exasperatingly difficult to study.