Sentences with phrase «other types of particles»

When cosmic rays — spacefaring protons or atomic nuclei — smash into the atmosphere at ultrahigh energies, they launch a cascade of many other types of particles, including muons.

They spew out countless other types of particles that we know of and hopefully that we don't know of.

Although this particular study focused on spinless particles, we can assume that the spectrum of other types of particles would behave in the same way,» says Fedor Popov.

Because only neutrinos can travel through the planet unimpeded, Earth serves as an effective screen, filtering out all other types of particles.

We think it's made of a type of particle that doesn't like to interact with normal matter [protons, neutrons, and other types of particles] very often.

Not exact matches

Therefore, mothers can be assured that their baby has little to no chance of becoming ill due to bacteria or ingesting particles that can cause a virus or some other type of illness.

But slower, secondary S waves, the other type of body wave, move particles perpendicular to the direction the wave itself is traveling: up and down or side to side.

During storms, they flew a research aircraft with several powerful instruments, including one that can identify the type of particle in a cloud and determine whether it was dust or some other type of aerosol.

That rules out all atoms but allows many other types of elementary particles.

A particle called the neutralino, for instance, is a type of WIMP that's a perfect candidate for dark matter in part because it doesn't interact with other particles much, and that would explain why nobody has yet detected it.

But while close, the two measurements didn't match perfectly, a result which leaves some wiggle room for physicists to think up other types of strange new particles.

He studied the phenomenon in the context of electrons moving through impure materials (electrons behave as both particles and waves), but under certain circumstances it can happen with other types of waves as well.

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

Researchers sorted plastic particles by size and type, including pieces of hard plastics and thin sheets, nets and ropes and other forms like foam.

Once the particle - populated nanoweb is dry, it is clamped at one end while the other is twisted by a spinning magnet, of the type used to stir fluids in the lab (see video above).

Other experiments have found evidence of CP symmetry violations in more exotic types of particles, such as kaons or B mesons, but they aren't enough by themselves to explain the dominance of matter over antimatter.

So other than particles of light we call photons, it's the next most common type of particle that exists.

Clean energy policies decrease not only carbon pollution linked to climate change but also other types of pollution that harm human health, such as sulfur oxides, nitrogen oxides, and fine particles that can damage the airways of humans and other organisms.

Led by MIT chemical engineering professor Patrick Doyle and Lincoln Laboratory technical staff member Albert Swiston, the researchers have invented a new type of tiny, smartphone - readable particle that they believe could be deployed to help authenticate currency, electronic parts, and luxury goods, among other products.

Hardly interacting with other matter, neutrinos come in the three different types — electron, muon, and tau — and the winners of this year's prize showed that the three types can morph into one another as the particles zip along at near - light speed.

The researchers theorize that the particle exists in a material known as tungsten ditelluride (WTe2), which the researchers liken to a «material universe» because it contains several particles, some of which exist under normal conditions in our universe and others that may exist only in these specialized types of crystals.

However, the type - II particle exhibits very different responses to electromagnetic fields, being a near perfect conductor in some directions of the field and an insulator in others.

What differentiates these particles from one another, and from one other conglomeration of the same three types of quarks that was previously found at the LHC, is the arrangement of the quarks» spins.

Seeing the corrugated surface and the oblong pores inside the alumina particles gives researchers clues to tailoring the gamma - alumina and other types of catalyst support particles.

Previously, all astronomy observations have relied on light — which includes X-rays, radio waves, and other types of electromagnetic radiation emanating from objects in space — or on very - high - energy particles called neutrinos and cosmic rays.

Lentiviral particles with the VSV - G envelope have high infectivity in a wide range of cell types, so they're ideal for work with primary cells or other difficult - to - transfect cells.

There are two main theoretical models, one based on small magnetite particles that may reorient in an external magnetic field and the other based on the idea that upon photo excitation a certain type of molecules in the eye of a bird support a radical pair formed by two electrons which evolve under the joint action of the Zeeman interaction with the external magnetic field and the hyperfine interaction with the supporting molecule.

The ability to devise these types of particles could one day enable new catalysts, energy storage systems and other applications.

For example, if you can learn how to use one type of particle generator in Ogre, you already know 90 % of what you need to use all of the other types.

In addition to the data from the radiometers, the Berkeley Lab scientists will get supplemental data by taking advantage of a separate, in - depth DOE climate study at the same location, which is using additional instruments and a balloon - borne sounding system to get information on temperature, cloud cover, the density and types of aerosols or pollution particles, heat fluxes and other climate variables like precipitation.

The bulk of the other components are some type of particle board or MDF.

You can find 2» x4 ′ pieces of particle board (or any other type of plywood for that matter) at almost any home improvement store.