Sentences with phrase «of mysterious particles»

Now, 15 years later, the SSC's sophisticated magnets are finally accelerating protons to high energy, but not for the pursuit of mysterious particles.

At least some of the mysterious particles are born in supernova shock waves, satellite data confirm

Neutrino physicists, meanwhile, are interested in using the technology to better understand the properties of the mysterious particle.

Not exact matches

The force might also be an entryway into understanding dark matter, mysterious particles making up the bulk of the mass of the universe that have yet to be observed.

We are aware that all material beings are composite, composed of atoms, that these particles are discrete within the continuity they integrate, that in themselves even they are miniature solar systems, and that these orbits are wide open spaces in relation to the miniature elementswhich are bound within them: bound and determined by the fixed laws that define the still mysterious phenomena of centrifugal and centripetal force.

The flash lamps that pump the initial energy into many lasers must be cooled for minutes or hours between shots, making it hard to carry out research that relies on plenty of data, such as investigating whether, very occasionally, photons transform into particles of the mysterious dark matter thought to make up much of the universe's mass.

Mysterious seasonal wobbles in the rate of radioactive decay may be caused by elusive particles from the sun

That may sound obvious, but many physicists were hoping that photons — particles of light — could help us to piece together the nature of the mysterious stuff thought to make up 85 per cent of the universe's matter.

Dubbed Y (4260), the mysterious particle has appeared about 100 times after billions of collisions of electrons and positrons recorded by the BaBar detector at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center.

The High - Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Gamma - Ray Observatory offers perspective on the very high energy light streaming from our stellar neighbors and casts serious doubt on one possible origin for a mysterious excess of anti-matter particles near Earth.

That particle, whatever it may be, would be available in abundant quantities and could thus be a good candidate for the mysterious dark matter believed to account for more than one - quarter of the stuff in the universe.

Physicists are waiting in suspense for the LHC to be rebooted next year after spotting hints of a mysterious new particle in the data

They interpreted it as the debris left behind when particles of dark matter — the mysterious substance that makes up most of the matter in the universe yet refuses to interact with ordinary matter except through gravity — crashed together and annihilated each other in the centre of the Milky Way.

The mysterious Weyl fermions were, in fact, detected for the first time in 2015; they turned out not to be free particles like the neutrino, which can move through the universe independently from the rest of the world, but rather «quasiparticles» in a solid state.

If the result is correct, these ghostly subatomic particles, which fly through the Earth as if it were transparent, could be a major component of the mysterious dark matter that fills the Universe and which governs its ultimate fate.

«Quarks» may be source of quasars» energy — The mysterious nuclear particles called «quarks,» which have not yet been detected but might nevertheless be basic building blocks of the atom's core, could be the source of the tremendous energy generated by the puzzling star - like objects known as quasars....

Two new looks at the gamma - ray sky suggest that if the mysterious matter is a particle, it is heavier than 40 gigaelectronvolts, about 44 times the mass of a proton.

Dark matter is a mysterious substance composing most of the material universe, now widely thought to be some form of massive exotic particle.

For over three years, the scientists have been collecting data on the flight of neutrinos — those mysterious, nearly massless particles that can travel through anything at immense speed — originating in the SPS accelerator at CERN, near Geneva, and traveling underground all the way to Gran Sasso, 731 kilometers (about 450 miles) away.

More important, a convergence of observations suggests that cosmic neutrinos spring from the same astrophysical sources as other particles from space: highly energetic photons called gamma rays, and mysterious ultra-high energy cosmic rays — protons and heavier atomic nuclei that reach energies a million times higher than humans have achieved with particle accelerators.

Last November, data from a balloon - borne particle detector circling the South Pole revealed a dramatic excess of high - energy particles from space — a possible sign of dark matter, the mysterious substance whose gravity seems to hold our galaxy together.

Data from NASA's orbiting Fermi Gamma - ray Space Telescope puts a crimp in particle theorists» favored explanation of the mysterious stuff whose gravity holds the galaxies together, ruling out a hefty range of masses for the hypothesized particles, a team announced this week.

This could allow scientists to peer into some of the more mysterious features of the cosmos, including event horizons — gravitational points of no return around black holes — and the blazing particle jets erupting from them.

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.

Astrophysicists using a telescope embedded in Antarctic ice have succeeded in a quest to detect and record the mysterious phenomena known as cosmic neutrinos — nearly massless particles that stream to Earth at the speed of light from outside our solar system, striking the surface in a burst of energy that can be as powerful as a baseball pitcher's fastball.

Schwadron and colleagues solved the discrepancies using triangulation of four different datasets gathered by other spacecraft, including the Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) mission that in 2009 discovered a mysterious «ribbon» of energy and particles believed to be associated with the interstellar magnetic field.

Physicists interpreted it as the debris from particles of mysterious dark matter — thought to make up most of the stuff in the universe — crashing together and annihilating each other.

«Mysterious catalyst explained: How tiny gold particles aid the production of plastic components.»

The new findings help to explain a significant part of the organic mass of aerosol particles in the air, which had remained mysterious to the scientists so far.

It could also help shed light on the origin of mysterious ultra-high-energy (UHE) cosmic rays, charged particles arriving on Earth at nearly the speed of light.

Quantum spin is one of the most fundamental properties defining the physical state of an atom or a subatomic particle, and also one of the most mysterious: Although it has mathematical similarities to spinning in the familiar sense, it is an oddly abstract attribute, and it does not mean that particles actually rotate like little tops.

You can view videos of some past Perimeter physics lectures below: Shape - Shifting Particles: Mysterious Neutrinos [Video] The Hunt for Dark Matter and Dark Energy [Video] Strange, Dense Matter: The Power of Neutron Stars [Video] How Radioactivity Can Benefit Your Health [Video]

Since this discovery 40 years ago, we have learned that this mysterious substance, which is probably an exotic elementary particle, makes up about 85 percent of the mass in the Universe, leaving only 15 percent to be the ordinary stuff encountered in our everyday lives.

«Neutrinos are one of the most mysterious particles,» Collar said.

In the search for the mysterious dark matter, physicists have used elaborate computer calculations to come up with an outline of the particles of this unknown form of matter.

Many theories in particle physics predict the existence of a so - called «sterile» neutrino, which would behave differently from the three known types and, if it exists, could provide a route to understanding the mysterious dark matter that makes up 25 percent of the universe.

In their search for the pervasive - yet - elusive particles of dark matter, astronomers have tried to find galaxies with much higher concentrations of the mysterious substance — it does not interact with visible matter at all, except through gravity, which is how scientists can theorize its existence.

If they existed, axions — one of the candidates for particles of the mysterious dark matter — could interact with the matter forming our world, but they would have to do this to a much, much weaker extent than it has seemed up to now.

As part of its science missions, LADEE will investigate the moon's transient atmosphere, its mysterious levitating dust particles and its surface conditions.

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.

Even today, they may be spewing ice from the moon's icy interior into space, creating a cloud of fine ice particles over the moon's South Pole and creating Saturn's mysterious E-ring.

Physicists at CERN hope that the detection and subsequent study of new particles could provide answers to some of the most fundamental questions of the universe, such as why there is an abundance of matter and lack of antimatter, and the make - up of mysterious «dark matter,» which is believed to constitute over 84 percent of the matter in the cosmos.

However, when CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) recommences operation in May this year, scientists will attempt to test a new model of particle physics — one that attempts to explain the origin of the mysterious dark matter that constitutes over 84 percent of the total matter in the universe.

Currently starring in Marvel's Captain America: Civil War, actor Daniel Bruhl is set to join the cast of the mysterious sci - fi film God Particle from J.J. Abrams» Bad Robot Productions, The Hollywood Reporter has revealed.

Following a mysterious particle from space that lands on the shores of a US coastline.

Here's a recent example from The New York Times: «Samuel Ting, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Nobel laureate particle physicist, said Wednesday that his $ 1.6 billion cosmic ray experiment on the International Space Station had found evidence of «new physical phenomena» that could represent dark matter, the mysterious stuff that serves as the gravitational foundation for galaxies and whose identification would rewrite some of the laws of physics.»

Particulars is a unique combination of arcade action and puzzle gameplay, set in the mysterious world of subatomic particles.

Featuring four playable characters, the game is based around the mysterious death of a particle physicist and his hidden vault.

While the mechanisms are still quite mysterious it is clear there is an abundance of particles smaller than 10 microns but Rasmus never stated otherwise.