Sentences with phrase «subatomic debris»

Instead, physicists must analyze the subatomic debris from the decays and reconstruct what happened.

Long the world's most powerful accelerator, the machine smashes together streams of protons and antiprotons moving at near — light speed so researchers can study the subatomic debris for new particles.

Inside an 18 - foot - high, 1,200 - ton particle detector, matter and antimatter moving at nearly the speed of light smash into each other billions of times a second, shattering into subatomic debris that hasn't existed for about 14 billion years.

Not exact matches

These Chandra observations showed that expanding debris from a supernova can accelerate subatomic particles faster than previously thought, and in fact can account for the highest - energy protons that come from outer space and are seen hitting the Earth's upper atmosphere.