Sentences with phrase «of hypothetical particles»

Among the new studies, the most exotic scenario investigated was the possibility that dark matter might consist of hypothetical particles called axions or other particles with similar properties.

According to our best cosmological theories, dark matter is made of hypothetical particles called WIMPs (weakly interacting massive particles).

New research suggests that the oddity could hint at the presence of hypothetical particles known as axions.

The existence of hypothetical particles called magnetic monopoles would explain why electric charge comes in integer multiples of the charge of an electron instead of a continuous range of values, Emily Conover reported in «Magnets with a single pole are still giving physicists the slip» (SN: 2/3/18, p. 10).

The main contender for the substance is a type of hypothetical particle known as a «weakly interacting massive particle» (WIMP).

Not exact matches

The disruption of experiments at Geneva's Large Hadron Collider — by a piece of baguette, no less — has temporarily set back research into the nature's most elusive element: a hypothetical subatomic particle called Higgs boson.

The world, as created by God, the author of all infomation, is 99.9999999999999 percent empty space, made solid by hypothetical, force - carrying massless particles.

When women routinely win Nobel Prizes in physics, chemistry or medicine, when a woman becomes a world chess champion, when a woman conceives and develops a brand new computer chip that represents a significant advancement over quad cores, when a woman invents warp drive or phasers, when a woman solves an «insolvable» math problem, when a woman, while working with the Large Hadron Collider, discovers the now - hypothetical Higgs Boson to be an actual scalar subatomic particle, when a woman figures out how to pinpoint the exact location of an electron at any point in time, when a woman working for Merck or Pfizer develops a remedy for Alzheimer's disease, when a woman's baseball team can defeat the New York Yankees, when a woman can bench press six hundred pounds, run the 100 meter dash in under nine seconds or set a world record in the high jump, then the fairer sex will have made an advance or contribution unlike any it has made before.

It is clear enough that the spin values dealt with in Stapp's proof are not intended as hypothetical characteristics of particles; but, taken as a class, they are not all possible experimental spin values either.

For the first time, physicists are snooping on some of the likeliest hiding places for hypothetical subatomic particles called axions, which could make up dark matter.

With decades - long searches failing to find the hypothetical dark matter particles that theorists have favored, physicists are turning to more radical ways of explaining the universe's missing mass.

By picking particular masses for the hypothetical particles, the researchers were able to calculate the number and sizes of clumps that could be floating through the Milky Way.

In the 1860s, physicist James Clerk Maxwell floated the idea of a hypothetical «neat - fingered demon» who could break the law by sorting hot and cold gas particles without expending energy, effortlessly flicking open a door between two compartments in a box.

Some theories had hinted that «heavy photons», hypothetical versions of the more familiar massless particles, might be dark matter.

Today some of the best minds in physics are fixated on the event horizon, pondering what would happen to hypothetical astronauts and subatomic particles upon reaching the precipice of a black hole.

EVERY AXION HAS ITS DAY Physicist Gray Rybka of the University of Washington in Seattle and colleagues have created a detector sensitive enough to potentially find hypothetical dark matter particles called axions.

Still, the new research has set some of the most stringent constraints yet on how easily the hypothetical particles may interact with matter, the MoEDAL collaboration reports December 28 at arXiv.org.

The hypothetical supersymmetric particles, which physicists hope to discover at giant particle accelerators like the Large Hadron Collider, would be «a reflection of all the Standard Model particles, using a mirror that is slightly distorted,» explains Joseph Incandela, a physicist at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

He's been thinking about how to use all sorts of particles — including neutrinos and hypothetical entities called axions — to co

Higher energies at the new LHC could boost the production of hypothetical supersymmetric particles called gluinos by a factor of 60, increasing the odds of finding it.

These enigmatic, hypothetical particles are the leading suspects in the search for dark matter, the unseen bits of whatever that are thought to make up the bulk of the matter in the universe.

Physicists will observe the collisions not only for clues to fundamental constituents of matter, hidden dimensions, and the elusive Higgs boson — the hypothetical particle that gives matter its heft — but also for tiny black holes winking in and out of existence.

So if the results of Gran Sasso are borne out by other experiments, then neutrinos are, in fact, tachyons — hypothetical particles, never before observed (except on Star Trek), that travel above light speed, and stay there.

Using that same measurement, researchers also honed in on the mass of the graviton, the hypothetical particle that mediates the force of gravity.

The 650 computers in the instrument will track the particles» trajectory, speed, and energy, which the device's designers hope will provide insights into mysterious forms of matter, including antimatter, dark matter, and a hypothetical family of particles called strangelets.

In this case, a hypothetical particle called a graviton — which mediates gravity — appears in large numbers out of the vacuum of space in regions crowded with massive objects such as stars.

Since then, 95 research manuscripts have been posted to the preprint server arXiv discussing the hypothetical particle, even though the statistical significance of the findings is low.

String theory, a hypothetical «theory of everything» that regards particles as invisibly small vibrating lines, posits that space - time is 10 - dimensional.

What about supersymmetric particles — hypothetical particles that are like weird twins of the known ones?

One major ingredient in this model is a hypothetical, ubiquitous quantum field that is supposed to be responsible for giving particles their masses (this field would answer the basic question of why particles have the masses they do — or indeed, why they have any mass at all).

We can even take all our data on particle physics data and interpret them in terms of the mass of a hypothetical Higgs boson.

For example, in 2008 Jonathan Feng and Jason Kumar, both then at the University of California, Irvine, showed how a phenomenon known as supersymmetry could produce a hypothetical class of particles much lighter and more weakly interacting than WIMPs.

Zoltan Ligeti, a physicist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California, and his colleagues have calculated that as it ramps up, the LHC will generate enough collisions to produce clear signatures of a hypothetical «diquark» particle proposed by some forms of string theory.

Nevertheless, by calculating the mass of that hypothetical parent particle, researchers were able to test for different combinations of spin and parity by proxy.

In actuality, the Higgs and its partner would emerge directly from the chaos of the particle collision, so the parent particle is purely hypothetical.

They argue that two pairs of detectors would be needed to pin down two key unknown parameters: the mass of a hypothetical sterile neutrino and the characteristic distance over which the particle would oscillate.

These are low - energy versions of photons, hypothetical particles known as gravitons and other particles.

STERILE neutrinos, hypothetical particles so aloof they may flit off into other dimensions at the drop of a hat, may finally be stepping into view.

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The authors of the most recent paper don't dispute these calculations, and concede that this particle may very well be the Higgs boson, but they contend that the calculations are also consistent with other hypothetical particles.

The particle would consist of techni - quarks, which are hypothetical elementary particles that can not be held together by any known force of nature.

In a paper published May 2 in Nature Physics, the CERN Axion Solar Telescope (CAST) at CERN presented new results on the properties of axions — hypothetical particles with minimal interactions with ordinary matter that therefore could constitute some or all of the mysterious dark matter, which is five times more abundant than normal matter.

It uses a variety of tools including VERITAS, AUGER and COUPP — dedicated telescopes, water tanks and underground «bubble chambers» — to observe known particles and to search for those that are so far only hypothetical, such as the dark - matter WIMPs (weakly interacting massive particles).

Massive gravity, for example — a theory of gravity that assigns a mass to a hypothetical elementary particle called a graviton — still holds a sliver of possibility if the graviton has a very slight mass.