Sentences with phrase «measure high energy particles»

By arranging their detectors at the edge of a fusion device, researchers have found that they are able to measure high energy particles kicked out of the plasma by a type of wave that exists in fusion plasmas called an Alfvén wave (named after their discoverer, the Nobel Prize winner Hannes Alfvén).

Not exact matches

I realize these might be unfamiliar units by which to measure energy, so to give some perspective, it is seven times the energy of the Tevatron particle accelerator at Fermilab in Illinois, which is presently the highest - energy machine, and 15,000 times the energy contained in the mass of a single proton at rest.

Farther out, a 2300 - ton structure of steel and scintillators measures the energies of strongly interacting particles, and, finally, from a radius of 5 to 10 m, the so - called «muon spectrometer» measures the momentum of muons with 2000 m2 of high precision positioning detectors.

«The fact that the measured intensities of very high - energy neutrinos, ultrahigh - energy cosmic rays, and high - energy gamma rays are roughly comparable tempted us to wonder if these extremely energetic particles have some physical connections.

The first is its energy — higher energies let scientists conjure up more massive particles (measured in gigaelectron volts, or GeV).

The team used a novel technique that involves replacing the electrons in hydrogen atoms with negatively charged particles called muons, and then measuring subtle shifts in the energy that is required to bump a muon into a higher - energy orbit around the single - proton nucleus.

The Pierre Auger Observatory measures gigantic showers of relativistic particles that are the result of collisions between the very rare, highest - energy cosmic rays and atomic nuclei of the atmosphere.