Sentences with phrase «years as a particle»

Foster earned a Ph.D. in physics at Harvard University «and spent 22 years as a particle accelerator designer at Fermilab.»

Representative Bill Foster (D — IL) holds a physics Ph.D. from Harvard University and spent 22 years as a particle accelerator designer at Fermilab, a Department of Energy national laboratory in Batavia, Illinois.

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When people are taunting men of science with decades of research behind them, quoting a 6,000 year old book as «proof» of why big bang cosmology, immunology, evolutionary biology, particle physics and a myriad of technologies are «wrong»?

Every year we read more of the unimaginably minute particles such as electrons, protons, positrons, mesons, and others named and described in quick succession as science advances, which form the outer particles and the inner nuclei of the atom.

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Eventually, as the black hole evaporated perhaps a trillion trillion trillion trillion years later (astronauts in thought experiments have remarkable longevity), the astronaut outside the black hole would see the Hawking radiation associated with the infalling particle.

British physicist Tony Skyrme, who lends his name to the knots, suggested about 60 years ago that particles such as neutrons and protons could be thought of as a kind of knot.

Every year, statistically speaking, you will inhale three particles shorn off a meteoroid as it burned through Earth's atmosphere.

As an upgraded LHC begins collecting data from high - speed proton collisions on June 3 after a two - plus - year hiatus, physicists are anxiously wondering whether the machine's second act will lead to discoveries of new particles and forces that add pages to the catalog.

The accuracy of this assertion might become clearer in a few years, as various groups are running computer simulations to calculate the self - force of particles orbiting spinning black holes, says Barausse.

That's consistent only with strange quark nuggets, the researchers say; other purported particles, such as miniature black holes, would be too massive and far too rare to spawn two earthquakes in 4 years.

That's exactly what Peter Higgs and François Englert were doing 50 years ago when they came up with what's now known as the Higgs mechanism, which imparts mass to fundamental particles.

Almost as soon as antimatter burst onto the scene 80 years ago, another possibility was aired: that certain particles, dubbed Majorana particles after their proposer, might be matter and antimatter at the same time.

Of respondents to the Snowmass Young Physicists survey, 60 % said they planned to pursue an academic job, says Jonathan Asaadi, 32, a postdoc at Syracuse University in New York and a Snowmass YPM co-convener — even though just as many expect funding for particle physics to continue to decline in coming years.

Last year, he was hired as an assistant professor at the University of Texas (UT), Austin, a plum position at any time, but especially now, in perhaps the tightest job market in particle physics in decades.

Hints of a surprise particle at the Large Hadron Collider have officially been confirmed as a blip, and finding another could take years or decades

In recent years, researchers have been testing whether so - called dendrimers — polymers grown into spherical particles — can be used as everything from drug carriers to catalysts.

The case seemed stronger still last year when Kevork Abazajian at the University of California, Irvine, and colleagues found signs that the remnants of annihilated dark matter particles were scattering off dust in the Milky Way, just as physicists predicted they should.

«The 3.5 - keV x-ray signal has a real chance of being definitively confirmed as dark matter in a few years, unlike other putative signals currently on the market,» says Jonathan Feng, a particle theorist at the University of California, Irvine.

As for our chances of making anything more complex, Frank Close, a particle physicist at the University of Oxford, is pessimistic, saying it will take a billion years, give or take.

Launched in 1997, Cassini has been exploring the Saturn system for more than nine years with a suite of instruments that also includes visible - light cameras, ultraviolet and infrared spectrometers, as well as magnetic field and charged particle sensors.

It has given rise to a number of very important ideas that have a good shot at being correct, such as higher dimensions, such as the possibility of forming mini-black holes at the LHC [Large Hadron Collider, a new particle accelerator that may be up and running next year], and thereby probing higher dimensions.

The technology, first used more than 80 years ago, eventually ceded ground to the snazzier synchrotrons that today power facilities such as the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at Europe's particle - physics laboratory, CERN, near Geneva, Switzerland.

Ever since physicists invented particle accelerators, nearly 80 years ago, they have used them for such exotic tasks as splitting atoms, transmuting elements, producing antimatter and creating particles not previously observed in nature.

In two papers in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, the scientists develop models showing that the stellar wind — the constant outpouring of charged particles that sweep out into space — could severely deplete the atmosphere of such planets over hundreds of millions of years, rendering them unable to host surface - based life as we know it.

21 SOLAR SHUTDOWN Back in the 1970s, when it seemed that the sun was not emitting the expected number of particles known as neutrinos, some solar physicists proposed that our star might go through million - year stretches of reduced activity, during which time its brightness could drop by perhaps 40 percent.

So when the number of particles coming from the sun changes — usually as a result of its 11 - year activity cycle — it takes years before that's reflected in the amount of neutral atoms shooting back into the solar system.

In recent years, particle physicists have made strenuous efforts to distance themselves from the Higgs boson's embarrassing «God particle» soubriquet, even as the public has embraced it.

An «ocean» composed of a single layer of molecules; an intricate depiction of an HIV particle as a study in orange and gray; a phantasmagoria of fungi; a video tracing the long - distance travels of items dumped in the trash in Seattle: The four first - place winners in this year's International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge grab your attention and draw you into unseen worlds in very different ways.

This is not a new phenomenon, as natural debris (dead wood, ash, etc.) have enabled species to move around for millions of years, but the movement of alien species on litter items is potentially a new problem, because of the proliferation of floating — mostly plastic — particles.

But we may be unlucky and, as you know, for example, in particle physics, we have this amazing standard model which has survived the test of, unfortunately, of all experiments, over the last 30 years without really telling us yet what the fundamental physics is and we are hoping that the Large Hadron Collider will tell us the answer to that.

The results estimate that lifelong exposure to 100 micrograms of «total suspended particulates,» or TSPs, (minuscule solid particles floating in the air, such as pollutants) per meter of air cubed will shorten a person's life by three years, on average.

While the results did not detect dark matter particles — known as «weakly interacting massive particles» or «WIMPs» — the combination of record low radioactivity levels with the size of the detector implies an excellent discovery potential in the years to come.

In California, exposure to these fine air particles is associated with up to 24,000 deaths every year, according to a 2009 study by the California Air Resources Board, the majority of them in highly populated areas such as the San Francisco Bay, the San Joaquin Valley and the Los Angeles air basins.

Although the seven - year data record is too short to make conclusions about long - term trends, it is an important step toward understanding how dust and other windborne particles, or aerosols, behave as they move across the ocean.

MARS's distinctive red colour may be the result of thousands of years of wind - borne sand particles smashing together, not rust as was thought.

The apparent bagging of the Higgs boson — the long - sought «God» particle that endows all matter with mass, as well as its hypothesizers with a Nobel prize — topped Discover's 2012 Year in Science list.

The particle's existence was first predicted 50 years ago by several physicists working independently, including Peter Higgs at the University of Edinburgh, as a solution to what had been one of the most vexing mysteries in physics: How do particles acquire mass?

SUPERSYMMETRY PREDICTION In «Supersymmetry and the Crisis in Physics,» Joseph Lykken and Maria Spiropulu discuss hopes that evidence of supersymmetry, which proposes that all known particles have hidden superpartners, will be found at CERN's Large Hadron Collider within a year's time — and the effects on physics as a whole if it is not.

Ginot and his team of researchers can also track aerosols — small particles in the atmosphere that fall with snow and get trapped and stored in the ice, layer by layer, as the years pass.

For nearly 25 years, the Tevatron reigned as the world's highest - energy atom smasher, until is was surpassed 18 months ago by the more - powerful Large Hadron Collider at the European particle physics laboratory, CERN, near Geneva, Switzerland.

In particular, they worry that they would lose access to essential funding from Madrid and the European Union's Horizon 2020, as well as to international research facilities such as CERN, the European particle physics laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland — unless and until Catalonia signs and pays for bilateral agreements, which may take several years.

The following year, he and Colozza wrote a paper for the now - defunct NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts (NIAC) about the use of electrohydrodynamics, or ionized particles, as an alternative to liquid fuel for powering space vehicles.

«If there is a Higgs boson whose mass is less than that of the Z particle, physicists will discover it over the next two years at the large accelerator in Geneva known as LEP (the Large Electron Positron collider).

This year, astronomers traced high - energy particles called cosmic rays back to their birthplaces in the debris clouds of supernovae — a feat that Science's editors chose as a runner - up for Breakthrough of the Yyear, astronomers traced high - energy particles called cosmic rays back to their birthplaces in the debris clouds of supernovae — a feat that Science's editors chose as a runner - up for Breakthrough of the YearYear.

► As the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) prepares to start up again after a 2 - year hiatus for repairs, researchers worry that the giant machine may have peaked with the 2012 discovery of the Higgs particle.

The discovery of the Higgs particle through the ATLAS and CMS experiments at the LHC accelerator in CERN in 2012 presented a milestone in physics even as the particle's existence had been predicted nearly 50 years prior to that.

After 14 years, CERN, the European particle physics lab near Geneva, is getting ready to switch on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), designed to seek out new particles including the long - awaited Higgs boson and the possible source of dark matter as well as study the differences between matter and antimatter.

To that end, the team made a significant discovery two years ago when it created a revolutionary way to manufacture soft materials using 3D printing and microscopic hydrogel particles as a medium.

Japanese scientist Takaaki Kajita and Canadian researcher Arthur B. McDonald will share this year's award for the discovery that neutrinos — fundamental particles that come in three types, or flavors — can actually swap identities and change flavors as they fly through space.