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.
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.
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).