Sentences with phrase «origin of the highest energy particles»

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I've long been fascinated by cosmology, although my deficiencies as a mathematician preclude my really following the arguments of astrophysicists, high - energy particle physicists, and others exploring the origins of the universe.

But it provides new hints about the origin of many cosmic rays, the high - speed protons and other charged particles of extraordinarily high energies that bombard Earth.

The highest energy particles in the universe hit Earth very rarely, so it took 10 years of data to pinpoint their origin.

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 EaHigh - 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 Eahigh 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.

Neutrinos and their weird subatomic ways could help us understand high - energy particles, exploding stars and the origins of matter itself.

The leading suspects in the half - century old mystery of the origin of the highest - energy cosmic particles in the universe were in galaxies called «active galactic nuclei,» which have a super-radiating core region around the central supermassive black hole.

It is important to reveal the origin of these high - energy cosmic neutrinos in order to better understand the underlying physical mechanisms that produce neutrinos and other extremely high - energy astroparticles and to enable the use of neutrinos as new probes of particle physics in the universe.»

Subatomic particles are routinely detected smashing into Earth's atmosphere at incredibly high energies, but the origin of these ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) remains a mystery.

Some cosmic rays detected on Earth are produced in violent events such as supernovae, but we still don't know the origins of the highest - energy particles, which are the most energetic particles ever seen in nature.

THE failure by an Antarctic telescope to spot neutrinos has knocked down a major theory about the origin of high - energy particles known as cosmic rays.

Wherever they come from, the highest - energy particles hold secrets to the origin of their enormous energies, many millions of times greater than any earthbound particle accelerator can create.