Sentences with phrase «much as a proton»

In recent years, however, a few groups have reported signs of unexpectedly light WIMPs weighing less than 10 times as much as a proton.

Not exact matches

A single proton can have as much energy as a tennis ball served at 100 kilometres per hour.

A proton falling into a neutron star releases 50 times as much energy as a proton fusing with another inside the sun.

Over the past decade, physicists have developed much more detailed maps of the magnetic field within the galaxy, which can deflect charged particles such as protons and nuclei.

These big bits of atoms, such as gold or silicon atoms stripped of their electrons, are much more complex than the protons that physicists have been accustomed to studying.

Although theoretical physics allows for much more exotic recipes, physicists have so far only found quarks arranged in pairs (mesons) and trios (baryons, such as neutrons and protons).

Forming lines of energy billions of light years long, it is narrower than a proton, and so dense that a piece 1 metre long weighs as much as an entire continent.

Lansoprazole belongs to a class of drugs known as «proton - pump inhibitors» that keep the stomach from pumping too much acid, thus preventing heartburn and ulcers.

RHIC's polarized proton collisions are offering insight into how the spins of the internal building blocks of a proton — the quarks and antiquarks (balls with arrows) and gluons (yellow «springs»)-- contribute to the overall proton spin, as well as whether and how much the orbital and transverse «bouncing» motions of these individual particles also contribute to spin.

The basic idea is that, in the case of large nuclei such as gold, which have a very large positive electric charge, electromagnetic interactions play a much more important role in particle production than they do in the case when two small, equally charged protons collide.

Russell has since embellished his theory, adding that a mineral called green rust, which can form in vent chimneys, can exploit the flow of protons at a vent in much the same way as ATP synthase.

Proton group managing director Datuk Syed Zainal Abidin Syed Mohamed Tahir has reportedly said that it would cost Proton as much as RM700 million (USD230 million) to develop a new car from the ground up but only half the amount via its collaboration with Mitsubishi Motors.