Japanese space agency (Jaxa) scientists want to detect a measurable acceleration in the spacecraft as photons - the particles of light - from the Sun fall on the roughly 200-sq-m, ultra-thin sheet.
Our best understanding of physics so far, called the Standard Model, suggests that the complicated cascades of decay of D-mesons into other particles should be very nearly the same - within less than 0.1% - as a similar chain of antimatter decays.
The electronic nose is an array of nano-scale gas sensors--the maximized surface area of the nano-particles allows the most gas to pass over them--along with pattern recognition technology that can create a digital fingerprint (or noseprint, as the case may be) of specific smells.
After orchestrating 2 million collisions between lead nuclei and protons, like the sort you see above, the collider's Compact Muon Solenoid group and researchers at MIT suspect that stray, linked pairs of gluon particles in the mix were signs of color-glass condensate, a currently theory-only form of matter that sees gluons travel in liquid-like, quantum-entangled waves.
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For instance, scientists need to use pi when calculating how "loops" -- particles that transform themselves into other particles, and then come back together to make the original particle again -- contribute to a particle's mass.
It's not just the facts of the incident -- or even the tiny particles of debris from the New York City street still in Matson's body -- that have left her upset.
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The loop may produce sub-atomic particles with a thousand times more energy than those in man-made accelerators.
Cleaning the wafers could affect solar samples because the particles -- atomic isotopes emitted by the sun -- are only shallowly embedded in the tiles.
Since every isotope that spews gamma or X rays or charged particles does so in a unique way--an atomic fingerprint, of sorts--the color and intensity of the flash tells the detector which isotope is present and in what quantity.
Ergo, if our universe is just a simulation, there should be a cut off in the spectrum of high energy particles, and low and behold, there is -- the Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin or GZK cut off.
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Although barely visible in the air, the ash -- made up of tiny particles of rock, glass, and sand -- poses a serious threat to aircraft, stalling engines and causing electrical failure, experts have said this week.
Materials scientist Dr. Walid A. Daoud and textile scientist Dr. John Xin, both from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU), used nanotechnology -- whereby the tiniest particles available to man are used -- to come up with the concept.
Astrophysicists can determine how the blazar grew brighter in different parts of the spectrum at different times and refine their models of how fast-moving particles within the jets give rise to the high-energy light.
According to quantum theory, all particles are wave-like (and all waves particle-like).
Some recent studies have revealed a significant concentration of particles in near-surface waters in areas of mid-ocean accumulation (N Pacific and NW Atlantic gyres).
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These include "sputtering" erosion - the bombardment of the surface by very fast charged particles (a process similar to sandblasting) - and impacts by meteorites.
The conditions also create anti-quarks, which are the fundamental particles that make up the nuclei of anti-atoms.
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They are known to exist in three types related to three different charged particles - the electron and its lesser-known relatives, the muon and the tau.
Last year, the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) found particles of man-made uranium at the al-Kibar site in Syria, which was destroyed by Israeli missiles in September 2007.
About the same size as fine particles of cigarette smoke, the grains are made of silicate minerals and carbon-based materials coated with ice - principally water ice and frozen carbon monoxide.
Xinhua says that readings in Beijing for the tiniest pollution particles - called PM2.5 - reached more than 400 microgrammes per cubic metre on Thursday, which is considered "dangerous".
Its guidelines say average concentrations of the tiniest pollution particles - called PM2.5 - should be no more than 10 microgrammes per cubic metre but UK standards allow up to 25.
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