Sentences with phrase «subatomic particles called»

The experiment here, called T2K (for Tokai - to - Kamioka) produces a beam of the subatomic particles called neutrinos.

Protons are essentially accumulations of even smaller subatomic particles called quarks and gluons, which are bound together by interactions known in physics parlance as the strong force.

An important property of quarks is called confinement, which states that individual quarks are not seen because they are always confined inside subatomic particles called hadrons (e.g., protons and neutrons); an exception is the top quark, which decays so quickly that it does not hadronize, and can therefore be observed more directly via its decay products.

Subatomic particles called neutrinos, on the other hand, flood out from deep in the Sun's core where they are generated in nuclear reactions.

The machine, known as the B - factory, will create subatomic particles called B mesons, and their antiparticles, then compare the way that the two particles decay.

It's not clear exactly what dark matter is, but the leading idea is that it consists of subatomic particles called WIMPs, short for weakly interacting massive particles.

In the conventional model, as the core is crushed and transformed into a block of neutrons, it releases a torrent of subatomic particles called neutrinos.

Last week, the OPERA experiment rocked the foundations of physics when it reported subatomic particles called neutrinos apparently breaking the light - speed barrier (see ««Light - speed» neutrinos point to new physical reality»).

For decades, physicists thought that the subatomic particles called neutrinos were, in fact, the massless particles that Weyl had predicted — a possibility that was ultimately eliminated by the 1998 discovery that neutrinos do have a small mass.

A year and half ago, physicists working with the massive IceCube particle detector — a 3D array of 5160 light sensors buried kilometers deep in ice at the South Pole — spotted ghostly subatomic particles called neutrinos from beyond our galaxy.

In theory, gravity travels through space in the form of subatomic particles called gravitons, which move at the speed of light.

Shock waves create energetic subatomic particles called cosmic rays, which can tear apart biomolecules and damage DNA beyond repair.

This process is so violent that it crushes protons and electrons together to form subatomic particles called neutrons.

For the first time, physicists are snooping on some of the likeliest hiding places for hypothetical subatomic particles called axions, which could make up dark matter.

The team made the observations using LRO's LEND instrument, which detects hydrogen by counting the number of subatomic particles called neutrons flying off the lunar surface.

The disruption of experiments at Geneva's Large Hadron Collider — by a piece of baguette, no less — has temporarily set back research into the nature's most elusive element: a hypothetical subatomic particle called Higgs boson.

that and a troublesome little subatomic particle called a neutrino you just can't wish away.

a very small subatomic particle called NEUTRINOS have rendered radiometric dating useless.

Scientific American's JR Minkel: «Two recent experiments show something interesting is going on in a subatomic particle called the Bs (B - sub-S) meson.

Not exact matches

Explaining Bohm's work, Timothy Ferris suggests that «the universe began as a hyperdimensional bubble of space, all but four of the dimensions of which compacted to form what we today call subatomic particles.

On August 25, 2012, the scientists say, Voyager 1 exited a giant invisible bubble called the heliosphere that is inflated by a torrent of subatomic particles spewing from the sun.

B mesons belong to class of subatomic particles that are bound states of quarks and they feel the so - called strong interactions, also known by the colorful name Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD).

The calculation applies to a particularly rare decay of the B meson (a subatomic particle), which is sometimes also called a «penguin decay» process.

Called WIMPs (weakly interacting massive particles), these subatomic shrinking violets may simply be better at hiding than physicists thought when they first predicted them more than 30 years ago.

INGREDIENTS Brookhaven National Laboratory's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider slams protons and neutrons together, breaking the subatomic particles into a soup of their core ingredients — quarks and particles called gluons (illustrated)

In 1995 her colleagues showed that thousands of cold subatomic particles can behave like a single enormous atom, a state called a Bose - Einstein condensate.

But the most pragmatic application could be quantum computing, so - called because such computers would operate according to the physics of subatomic particles, known as quantum mechanics.

Itforms when a massive object implodes and shrinks below a criticalcircumference, called the event horizon, and then keeps on implodinguntil all that mass is concentrated in a singularity — a point far, farsmaller than a subatomic particle.

Particles behaving oddly at the Large Hadron Collider seem to be the strongest signs yet of an unusual «subatomic pancake» called a colour - glass condensate.

The most energetic particles that strike us from space, which include neutrinos as well as gamma - ray photons and various other bits of subatomic shrapnel, are called cosmic rays.

Does matter break down into a soup of subatomic particles — called a quark - gluon plasma — and then into energy?

The Casimir forces are due to the quantisation of electromagnetic fluctuations in vacuum, while the weak nuclear interactions are mediated by subatomic scale particles, originally called mesons by Yukawa.

In 2004 he won the Nobel Prize for discovering what's called asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong force which holds subatomic particles together to make protons and neutrons in the atomic nucleus.

Elusive particles called neutrinos are the chameleons of the subatomic world.

In fact, superposition is one of two basic properties of subatomic particles that researchers hope to utilize in building a quantum computer, with the other being quantum «entanglement,» which Albert Einstein once derisively called «spooky action at a distance.»

One of these non-intuitive behaviors is that subatomic particles actually behave more like waves than like discrete particles — a phenomenon called wave - particle duality.

baryons Subatomic particles made from three smaller units called quarks.