Sentences with phrase «other charged particles»

Results: For the first time, researchers can determine if large molecules and other charged particles that softly land on a surface form the desired bonds, thanks to a new approach built by a team at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.

As protons, electrons and other charged particles from interstellar gas bounce around in the magnetic fields, they're accelerated to blinding speeds to create cosmic rays.

Other charged particles could also sample this unseen zoo, says Aida El - Khadra, a theorist at the University of Illinois in Urbana.

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.

Not exact matches

2) Because the proteins now all have no charge (neutral) on their surface they can interact with each other and form larger particles.

But when one or the other is observed, they can estimate when the charged solar particles will strike Earth's atmosphere and cause the aurora to dance.

Outer space may look mostly empty, but it's actually packed with cosmic radiation — gamma rays and charged particles produced by exploding stars, black holes and other violent astrophysical phenomena.

The trapped, positively charged particles repel each other inside the trap and, at such ultra-low temperatures, take on a crystalline structure.

If virtual particles have gravitational charges, then space - time itself is imbued with a small charge that could be causing objects in the universe to speed away from each other.

Far beyond Pluto, beyond even the comets, lies the solar system's true edge — the heliosheath, where charged particles blowing outward from the sun crash into those flowing from other stars to create a vast protective magnetic bubble.

As windblown crystals hit the snowpack, particles with opposite charges are attracted to each other and stick together to form a cornice.

Dubbed the sterile neutrino, this phantom particle would carry no charge of any kind and would be impervious to all forces other than gravity.

«Due to the fact that like charges repel while opposite charges attract each other,» says Emanuela Bianchi, «our particles tend to align in such a way that the pole of one particle points towards the equator of the other.»

«Charge controls the ability to transport particles that are interacting with cells and other objects that possess electric fields,» he said.

Various forces such as surface adhesion or electrostatic charge cause the particles to adhere to each other in systems with extremely small particles measuring only a few micrometres.

Among the features that determine the catalytic efficiency of a nanoparticle is its electrical charge, which is difficult to quantify in technologically relevant systems, where the particles interact with the surfaces of other materials.

These forces are electromagnetism, which describes how charged objects feel each other's influence: the weak force, which explains how particles can change their identities, and the strong force, which describes how quarks stick together to form protons and other composite particles.

Scientists charge the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and other government agencies are failing to assess the potential dangers of puny particles

In the studied model system, X-rays produce the doubly - charged particle (Ne2 +), which catches an electron from one of the neighboring atoms (Kr), transferring the energy to the other and releasing another electron.

The ratio of charge to heat tells researchers whether the particle struck the nucleus, and therefore might be a WIMP, or if it is just a rogue electron or some other familiar particle that is simply stirring up the atomic neighborhood.

What role does it play in spewing large streams of charged particles, known as coronal mass ejections, which strike Earth's atmosphere and can disrupt GPS systems and other sensitive technologies?

«When particles bang into each other, they exchange mass and electrons,» says Thomas «But the electrons don't get distributed evenly, so a charge is formed.»

High levels of charged particles could damage global positioning and other types of satellites that orbit in the Van Allen zone.

Now, analyses of data gathered in 2006 by two satellites — one carrying a down - gazing camera and the other a gamma ray detector — as well as a ground - based lightning detector in North Carolina, reveal that these flashes start out, as does most lightning, as a small channel of charged particles within the storm cloud (golden zigzag line, left; lightning - generated radio waves are depicted as concentric rings).

When a high - energy electron (a beta particle) is created during a double - beta decay, that electron will scatter off other electrons and create electron - hole pairs that move inside the germanium and create a pulse of charge inside the detector.

Other instruments will measure water and different key chemical components, probe the inner workings of the powerful magnetic field, monitor charged particles driving the solar system's brightest auroras, and, of course, return some stunning close - up color images.

The resulting interaction converted magnetic energy into kinetic energy and sent charged particles such as cosmic rays raining down on Earth's magnetosphere, the region around Earth where its own magnetic field is stronger than other magnetic fields in space.

These iron oxide particles — and other colloids — typically have a negative charge, and the positively charged actinides simply attach to their surfaces electrostatically.

CPT symmetry says that, if you replace the charges with their opposite values, make particles into their mirror images and reverse time, physical laws will look the same — in other words, a «mirror universe» would look and behave just like ours.

Because neutrons are microscopic magnets that carry no charge, they can be used to interact with and excite other magnetic particles in the system without compromising the integrity of the material's atomic structure.

The earth's magnetic field performs important functions: it protects us, for example, from charged particles from space and enables migratory birds, bees, and other animals to navigate.

«We believe that this is an important piece of the puzzle for understanding how magnetic reconnection works, how charged particles are accelerated, and how particles from different regions can be mixed with each other,» says Daniel Graham.

Other data indicate that Jupiter's magnetic field is nearly 50 % stronger than previously suspected in some places, hinting that the movement of electrically charged particles deep in the planet's atmosphere may rise closer to the cloudtops than previously presumed.

The decaying theoretical underpinnings for simple WIMP models, paired with the growing list of empty - handed detection efforts, have led Feng and many others to propose that WIMPs are part of a more complicated picture: a hidden realm of the universe filled with varieties of dark particles interacting with one another through a suite of dark forces, perhaps exchanging dark charges through bursts of dark light.

Other electrically charged particles power Jupiter's polar auroras.

And unlike many other subatomic particles, neutrinos have no charge, so they travel in a straight line from their source without being deflected by the magnetic fields around stars.

But getting more protons to collide is an ongoing challenge because, as one beam of these positively charged particles passes through the other, the particles» like charges make them want to move away from one another.

Cosmic rays are charged particles, mainly atomic nuclei of hydrogen, helium and some other heavier elements, that constantly bombard Earth.

Phobos lies far beyond Earth's protective magnetosphere, so LIFE should provide a glimpse of what happens when organisms are not shielded from many of the damaging charged particles from the sun and other sources.

Kar and Yung Joon's detector, on the other hand, is so sensitive it can pick up just a single charged particle.

Because photons lack charge and mass, they can be transmitted across a fiber optic network with minimal interactions with other particles.

If a particle has other attributes (such as an electric charge Q), then the anti-particle has the opposite attributes (or a charge of - Q).

Then they tumbled and spun tiny particles of polystyrene, biphenyl, naphthalene and other hydrocarbons inside it, watching as the material collided, charged and clumped under conditions simulating Titan's atmosphere and lower gravity.

After ruling out all other possibilities, they figured out that the dip was from a phenomenon called cyclotron resonance scattering, which occurs when charged particles — either positively charged protons or negatively charged electrons — circle around in a magnetic field.

Each battery charge cycle increases the chance that silicon particles become electrochemically welded to each other.

For the first time in a metal, scientists have found that the charge - carrying particles in graphene behave as a fluid, where, rather than avoiding each other, particles collide trillions of times a second.

In either case, the charged particles hardly ever interact with each other.

NASA and United States scientists will join those from Norway, Japan, Canada and other countries during the next two years to investigate the physics of heating and charged particle precipitation in this region called the geomagnetic cusp — one...

They observed that the particles likely «communicate» with each other through the movement of positive charge carriers (holes) over distances of around 102 nm and over times of between 10 to 102 seconds.

As these bouncing particles collide with other particles, they get charged up, eventually having so much electrostatic charge that they stick to other particles and clump.