Sentences with phrase «precision measurements in»

I can point to numerous cases in precision measurements in my field where improved results are many sigma different than previous results — precisely because systematic effects were underestimated or not even known.

Such a sequence of pulses is known as «Ramsey sequence» and is used for high - precision measurements in many areas.

This allows high - precision measurements in a short time and considerably facilitates the future reduction of the total measurement uncertainty down to a few parts in 1018.

Not exact matches

My measurements are in cups simply because there's no need for exact precision with overnight oats.

Those first experiments will provide higher precision measurements of the structure of the proton (Precision Measurement of the Proton Elastic Cross Section at High Q2 and Measurements of the Electron - Helicity Dependent Cross Sections of Deeply Virtual Compton Scattering with CEBAF at 12 GeV) Both experiments will be run in Experimemeasurements of the structure of the proton (Precision Measurement of the Proton Elastic Cross Section at High Q2 and Measurements of the Electron - Helicity Dependent Cross Sections of Deeply Virtual Compton Scattering with CEBAF at 12 GeV) Both experiments will be run in ExperimeMeasurements of the Electron - Helicity Dependent Cross Sections of Deeply Virtual Compton Scattering with CEBAF at 12 GeV) Both experiments will be run in Experimental Hall A.

«We've been waiting for this for 30 years,» says Thomas Udem, an experimental physicist at the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics in Garching, Germany, who works on precision measurements of hydrogen.

This research has become possible only recently with the advent of astronomers» precision measurements of the amounts of nuclei present in the early universe.

The ability to make simultaneous comparisons improves precision and speed in measurements of a group of atoms.

The plan was for NASA pilots to crisscross the continent in jets loaded with new technology that promised precision measurements unlike any made before.

The speed and pace of those measurements promise to add an increment of precision to GPS navigation, and ROMY may even be able to detect a subtle effect predicted by Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity: the drag of the rotating planet on nearby spacetime, like a spoon turned in a pot of honey.

The ability to control quantum noise could one day be used to improve the precision of very sensitive measurements, such as those obtained by LIGO, the Laser Interferometry Gravitational - wave Observatory, a Caltech - and - MIT - led project searching for signs of gravitational waves, ripples in the fabric of space - time.

Four days after its launch on 17 January, the Jason - 3 high - precision ocean altimetry satellite is delivering its first sea surface height measurement data in near - real time for evaluation by engineers from the Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES), EUMETSAT, the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and scientists from the international Ocean Surface Topography Science Team.

So rare decays require high precision in both the experimental measurements and the theoretical calculations.»

«We have demonstrated a reconfigurable array of traps for single atoms, where we can prepare up to 50 individual atoms in separate traps deterministically, for future use in quantum information processing, quantum simulations, or precision measurements,» says Vuletic, who is also a member of MIT's Research Laboratory of Electronics.

«This Juno system is so technically advanced that measurement capabilities have been improved by orders of magnitude in precision,» Bolton said.

On the other hand, in magnetic field confinement fusion plasma intended for a fusion reactor, which research is being conducted at the National Institute for Fusion Science, development of high precision electron density measurements is becoming an important research topic.

«The wave nature of light in super-slow motion: Physicists achieve high - precision measurement of the wave characteristics of focused, ultra-short light pulses.»

The ingenious device he employed for measuring G, called a torsion balance, had been built by the clergyman and amateur naturalist John Michell and was invented simultaneously by the French electrical pioneer Charles Coulomb, but in Cavendish's skillful hands it revolutionized the science of precision measurements.

Earth - based observations in 2003 indicated plumes of methane on Mars (red), but higher - precision measurements on the planet's surface find no such gas.

The team concludes in the paper that the «high frequency and precision ground - based remote sensing results provide the performance metric and sampling strategy for satellite - based measurements, permitting a global emission monitoring system.»

Gravity Probe B fell well short of the precision developers had hoped to achieve in making the key measurement.

Although the technique still needs refinements, physicists believe that in the future it will beat the precision of conventional methods — and hopefully solve apparent discrepancies between measurements that have long puzzled physicists.

He says the precision of the measurements obtained so far in krypton gas has encouraged the team to move on to tritium — a goal Formaggio says may be attainable in the next year or two — and pave a path toward measuring the mass of the neutrino.

OCO - 2's spectrometers can detect changes of one or two carbon dioxide molecules out of the 400 — an unprecedented level of precision, and one that scientists think will be adequate to detect changes in natural sources and sinks, once enough measurements have been collected.

In that sense atom interferometers are pendulums without clockwork, so although they can make physical measurements with great precision, they can not be used to keep time.

Second, such measurements are limited in precision by the Heisenberg uncertainty prinCiple.

GOMOS will look at 25 stars during its 90 - minute orbit, using a high precision tracking device to keep the star in place for measurements.

A team of researchers at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston has developed technologies for precision measurement of cell migration speed before and applied the new tool to study the variations of migration speed in population of cancer cells.

In high - precision measurements, it turns out that the probability of finding an individual atom is not the same at each point in space — and there are intriguing relationships between the different probabilitieIn high - precision measurements, it turns out that the probability of finding an individual atom is not the same at each point in space — and there are intriguing relationships between the different probabilitiein space — and there are intriguing relationships between the different probabilities.

More importantly, they can be stored in special traps, enabling researchers to perform high - precision measurements and look for signs of new physics.

Atomic clocks of the previous generation, with significantly lower precision, are currently being used in applications including satellite navigation systems, high - capacity wireless networks (wi - fi), ensuring the security of bank communications, and also taking measurements of the Earth's gravitational field, yielding insight into its internal geological structure.

«One main goal of RHIC's energetic polarized - proton collisions is to increase the precision of our measurements so we can better tease out the contribution from the gluons» spin,» said Jamie Dunlop, Associate Chair for Nuclear Physics in Brookhaven's Physics Department.

High - precision time measurements play an important role in many fields of science and technology.

High - resolution measurements were the domain of specialists in precision spectroscopy and optical frequency metrology, wherein highly stable CW lasers reigned as the preferred tools.

«More measurement precision in a short time.»

«In a sense, this is the first precision measurement done on antihydrogen, because the measurement exceeds anything that could be inferred from previous measurements,» Fajans said.

In the time since the 2007 version of this report, the human effect on the climate has grown more than 40 percent stronger, thanks to continued emissions of greenhouse gases and more precision in measurements, with carbon dioxide leading the chargIn the time since the 2007 version of this report, the human effect on the climate has grown more than 40 percent stronger, thanks to continued emissions of greenhouse gases and more precision in measurements, with carbon dioxide leading the chargin measurements, with carbon dioxide leading the charge.

Additional precision in this study was provided by NASA's Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment, or GRACE satellites, which can make detailed measurements of gravity and, as one result, estimate the mass of glaciers they are flying over.

Further advances in high - resolution MRI also allow the measurement of the induced brain changes with improved accuracy and precision.

The system provides «precision measurements of material motion that here relate directly to oxygen levels,» she says, enabling researchers to measure exactly how the oxygen is cycling in and out of the metal oxide.

To get a better picture of the newfound world, astronomers would need a complementary observation, such as watching a partial eclipse (known as a transit) as the planet passes in front of its star, or making a precision measurement of the star's side - to - side motion in the sky.

The interval doesn't reflect an uncertainty in measurement precision but rather a real variation of atomic weight from substance to substance.

The concepts of rotation and angular momentum play a crucial role in many areas of physics, ranging from nuclear spectroscopy to molecular collisions and precision measurements.

In his lecture, Bioengineer Stephen Quake argues that both physics and biology can be tied together by the use and consequences of precision measurement.

Swapping the ease of a single number for the apparently clumsier interval of numbers has been controversial among some chemists, but additional precision in measurements in recent years has shown the change is necessary for accuracy.

As such, finding ways to reduce quantum noise can enhance the precision of measurement in the examples given above.

Also, the greater precision of the newer measurement of the Hubble Constant provides increased constraints on the nature of the «dark energy» discussed in the cosmology chapter.

Analysis of four years of precision measurements from Kepler shows that 22 ± 8 % of Sun - like stars have Earth - sized planets in the habitable zone.

The team, several of whom were part of the High - z Supernova Search Team that co-discovered the accelerating expansion of the universe in 1998, refined the universe's current expansion rate by developing innovative techniques that improved the precision of distance measurements to faraway galaxies.

Second, together with our international partners, NSF provides the tools that astronomers need to make precision measurements of planetary systems; the newly inaugurated Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array (ALMA) can study planets in the act of formation, while the Gemini Observatory is poised for new exoplanet discoveries with the Gemini Planet Imager (GPI) that will be commissioned in the next year.