Sentences with phrase «type of particle called»

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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.

Although the LHC will not come anywhere close to detecting strings, it may confirm a precursor theory called supersymmetry, in which every known type of particle has a «superpartner»: an unstable, heavier twin.

By arranging their detectors at the edge of a fusion device, researchers have found that they are able to measure high energy particles kicked out of the plasma by a type of wave that exists in fusion plasmas called an Alfvén wave (named after their discoverer, the Nobel Prize winner Hannes Alfvén).

Its recommendations include «mount [ing] a massive experiment to search for a hypothesized type of nuclear decay that is possible only if an elusive, nearly massless particle called the neutrino is — weirdly — its own antiparticle,» «building a new collider,» and «fully exploit [ing] the three major facilities U.S. nuclear physicists already have.»

The quantities we call constants of nature, such as the masses of elementary particles, Newton's gravitational constant, and so on, take different values in different bubble types.

These particles, called micelles, are one type of a class of materials known as nanoparticles.

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

Recent modeling along with previously published results from NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft — short for Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry and Ranging, a mission that observed Mercury from 2011 to 2015 — has shed new light on how certain types of comets influence the lopsided bombardment of Mercury's surface by tiny dust particles called micrometeoroids.

and one is called super symmetry; and this is the idea that the two main types of particles in nature which are basically particles in matter and particles of force.

This experiment, called protoDUNE, is a 1 / 20th scale model of the planned DUNE neutrino detector, which will study how these elusive particles oscillate between different types, or «flavours», and investigate their masses.

The particle's existence was missed by physicist Hermann Weyl during the initial development of quantum theory 85 years ago, say the researchers, because it violated a fundamental rule, called Lorentz symmetry, that does not apply in the materials where the new type of fermion arises.

There are heavy quarks, in fact a total of six types of quarks, and the electrons have particles that are very similar except they're much heavier, called muons and tauons.

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.

This study provides new insights into the evolution and behavior of a less studied type of particle, called «brown carbon.»

Many theories in particle physics predict the existence of a so - called «sterile» neutrino, which would behave differently from the three known types and, if it exists, could provide a route to understanding the mysterious dark matter that makes up 25 percent of the universe.

Kok's work, which focused on a type of airborne particle called mineral dust, also suggests that there may be several times more dust particles pumped into the atmosphere than previously believed, since shattered dust appears to produce an unexpectedly high number of large fragments.