Sentences with phrase «of magnetic trap»

The core of the device uses cusp confinement, a sort of magnetic trap in which particles that try to escape are pushed back by rounded, pillowlike magnetic fields.

Gerald Gabrielse, a Harvard physicist who works on a rival experiment at CERN known as ATRAP, warns that it's easy to be fooled by subtleties of the magnetic traps.

Not exact matches

He won't be looking for elusive infrared photons, but instead will be taking rapid - fire images of plasma loops — coils of ionized gas trapped in billowing magnetic fields — arcing off the sun and peeking out from behind the moon.

Read about a team studying how the sun interacts with Earth's magnetic field and the particles trapped in it, and how this type of interaction produces the northern and southern lights.

These trapped magnetic atoms are constantly rattling the bars of their cage, and this rattling seems to be responsible for the material's exceptionally favourable properties.

«We came up with the idea to trap cerium atoms, because their magnetic properties promised particularly interesting kinds of interaction,» explains Bühler - Paschen.

Dispersive light scattering was used to observe the separation between the condensed and normal components of the Bose gas inside a magnetic trap.

Equally daunting, the satellite orbits deep within Jupiter's awesome magnetic field, which traps and holds an enormous supply of lethally charged particles.

Search for magnetic monopoles with the MoEDAL forward trapping detector in 2.11 fb − 1 of 13 TeV proton - proton collisions at the LHC.

It had been proposed that those strong, locally trapped magnetic fields deflect the onslaught of the solar wind, which was thought to slowly darken the Moon's surface.

The method his group has developed uses a magnetic - gravitational trap involving a combination of magnets and gravity.

The ALPHA team want to keep antimatter intact long enough to study it, so last year they worked out how to hold a cloud of antihydrogen in a magnetic trap.

The greenish glow in the center of Io's disk is thought to be caused by high - speed particles that batter the moon's atmospheric oxygen or sodium gas — the particles are trapped in Jupiter's powerful magnetic field.

The radiation belts are two donut - shaped regions of highly energetic particles trapped in the Earth's magnetic field — the inner, located just above our atmosphere and extending 4,000 miles into space; and the outer, from 8,000 to 26,000 miles out — and are named for their discoverer (as are the probes), the late James A. Van Allen of the University of Iowa.

NASA might choose to extend it, but the spacecraft could still succumb any day to the intense radiation from the deadly halos of high - energy particles trapped around the planet by magnetic fields.

In the 1950s, geologists for Pemex, Mexico's national oil company, conducted gravity and magnetic surveys of the Yucatán Peninsula and were intrigued to see underground circular structures — possible oil traps.

It detected the first traces of the belts of protons and electrons, trapped by Earth's magnetic field, that bear Van Allen's name.

Instead of permanently depositing particles through immunoaffinity, anti-EpCAM coated magnetic microparticles were trapped over the untreated PDMS surface by an external magnetic field and were then released by readily removing the magnet for CTC collection.

The geomagnetic storm passed within 24 hours or so but, while it was ongoing, the solar particles and magnetic fields caused the release of particles already trapped near Earth.

Because of its charge, a proton becomes trapped inside a supernova remnant's magnetic field.

Obertelli and his colleagues plan to use magnetic and electric fields to trap a cloud of antiprotons within a vacuum (see «Antimatter to go»).

In a magnetic trap, the most energetic atoms can move farther against the pull of the magnetic forces, and can therefore reach regions with higher magnetic fields than the colder atoms can.

By keeping them in a magnetic trap on an atom chip, this atom cloud can be used as a «quantum simulator,» which yields information about a variety of different physical systems and new insights into some of the most fundamental questions of physics.

and look T. M. Walraven of the University of Amsterdam are trying to achieve such a condensation with a collection of hydrogen atoms in a magnetic trap.

«One idea is that the process of magnetic reconnection on the night side of Earth causes a build - up of «trapped» hot plasma in the higher latitude lobes.»

Aurelien Manchon, an Associate Professor of Material Science and Engineering at the University, notes that one of the main reasons for the appeal of skyrmions is their ability to avoid defects or uneven patches in thin films that would normally trap or «pin» a magnetic charge.

This suggestion led Jean Dalibard of the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris to propose a «magneto - optic» trap, which used a weak magnetic field and circularly polarized light.

«We catch hundreds of Rubidium atoms in a magnetic trap and cool them so that they form an ultracold Bose - Einstein condensate,» says Professor Jörg Schmiedmayer from the Institute for Atomic and Subatomic Physics at the Vienna University of Technology.

After reviewing evidence of the blast — magnetic dust, trapped extraterrestrial gas, glasslike carbon full of tiny diamonds from the heat, and a layer of iridium from outer space — the geologists concluded that the North American fireball was a whopper.

The belt, which consists of antiprotons trapped by Earth's magnetic field several hundred kilometers above the planet's surface, may ultimately become a key source of fuel for missions venturing beyond the solar system.

When the electric fields within the plasma are removed, none of the electrons are trapped in the plasma system leaving the electrons free to interact with the confining magnetic wall: the plasma pressure force does work on the magnetic boundary.

High above Earth, two giant rings of energetic particles trapped by the planet's magnetic field create a dynamic and harsh environment that holds many mysteries — and can affect spacecraft traveling around Earth.

Their «gravito - magnetic trap» cooled the gas to — 459.67, less than a billionth of a degree above absolute zero, the point at which all the molecular movement halts and our heat - vision eyes see only black.

The team suggests the unexpectedly large quantity of methanol may have two possible origins: either a cloud of gas expelled from Enceladus has been trapped by Saturn's magnetic field, or gas has spread further out into Saturn's E-ring.

Magnetic trapping of charged sungrazing body debris or evaporation of zody cloud dust infalling due to P - R Production of close - in dust from close - in evaporating planets?

A strong magnetic field like that of V374 Peg can trap a CME at the Astrospheric Current Sheet, with the deflection depending primarily on the CME mass but also on its speed.

Radio astronomers discovered intense belts of radiation surrounding Jupiter created by electrons trapped in its powerful magnetic field — 10x the Earth's!

This mass of plasma travels at millions of miles per hour and, upon colliding with a planet's magnetic field, can trigger a geomagnetic storm, during which particles trapped in a planet's atmosphere are released.

The jet originates in the disk of superheated gas swirling around this object and is propelled and concentrated by the intense, twisted magnetic fields trapped within this plasma.

They discovered that the lobe, an area of the magnetosphere which is usually filled with cold, unenergetic, plasma, does in some cases fill up with hot plasma when magnetic reconnection occurs on the night side of the Earth, thus closing the field lines and trapping the plasma within.

While in the magnetic, arresting and simultaneously appalling presence of No, No New Museum, the viewer is trapped in Nauman's funhouse — teetering at the edge of sanity and fascination.

This is where the magnetic fields are so important — they effectively trap the heat and particles in the hot center of the device.

First publications predicting the existence of trapped radiation in the earth's magnetic field (radiation belts, later discovered by Van Allen) to explain the magnetic - storm ring current (1956).