Definitions

1. Accelerators is a new feature added to Internet Explorer 8.
2. Accelerators are used to study the structure of atomic nuclei (see atom) and the nature of subatomic particles and their fundamental interactions. (Web site)
3. Accelerators are also needed to provide enough energy to create new particles. (Web site)
4. Accelerators are to particle physics what telescopes are to astronomy, or microscopes are to biology. (Web site)
5. Accelerators are also crucial to realizing the opportunities to dramatically advance our understanding of the universe and the laws that govern it. (Web site)

Simple Objects

1. These instruments may range from simple objects such as rulers and stopwatches to electron microscopes and particle accelerators.

Circular Accelerators

1. Particle accelerators come in two basic types-linear accelerators and circular accelerators. (Web site)

Beginning

1. In the beginning of Particle Physics there were no accelerators.

Technology

1. Particle accelerators such as the LHC are unique machines, built at the cutting edge of technology. (Web site)

Advent

1. Since the advent of particle accelerators had not yet come, high-energy subatomic particles were only obtainable from atmospheric cosmic rays. (Web site)

Mass

1. Particle accelerators with energies necessary to observe neutral current interactions and to measure the mass of Z boson weren't available until 1983. (Web site)

Way

1. Either way, higher-energy particles required longer accelerators than scientists could afford.
2. The way to prove that is to make streams of them, both normal neutrinos and antineutrinos, by using particle accelerators and watch how they behave.

Place

1. The event should take place this month, said Steve Myers, CERN's Director for Accelerators and Technology. (Web site)

Small

1. These remaining particles should have a small enough mass to be produced and studied at accelerators. (Web site)
2. Particle accelerators, however, measure too small a violation of CP-symmetry to account for the baryon asymmetry. (Web site)

Properties

1. Particles having such properties have been produced in particle accelerators. (Web site)

Possibility

1. While physicists at accelerators are trying to understand possibility (a), if AMS sees antimatter nuclei, it would prove possibility (b).

Theories

1. A major problem for experimental tests of such theories is the energy scale involved, which is well beyond the reach of current accelerators. (Web site)

Application

1. An application to particle accelerators explains the apparent mass increase with velocity. (Web site)

Invention

1. The phenolic antioxidants of this invention may be used with or without other stabilizers, vulcanizing agents, accelerators or other compounding ingredients. (Web site)
2. From the invention of the telescope to the time of particle accelerators, insight and understanding have grown. (Web site)

Elements

1. The two newest members of the table of the elements, with atomic numbers of 113 and 115, were recently made in accelerators in Russia. (Web site)
2. Most elements have very stable atoms which are impossible to split except by bombardment in particle accelerators. (Web site)

Masses

1. Meanwhile, particle accelerators around the world started producing new "strange" particles whose masses were betwen that of the pion and the nucleons. (Web site)

Isotopes

1. These isotopes are produced in accelerators where the subatomic,.
2. In the United States cyclotrons and other particle accelerators had been developed and these had been used to discover many new isotopes such as Carbon-14.

Engineers

1. Engineers at particle accelerators must also be able to halt intense beams of particles during routine shut-downs or emergencies.
2. Moreover, they work closely with engineers in designing basic scientific equipment, such as high-energy particle accelerators. (Web site)

Nature

1. We cannot theorize or compute our way to an answer: we must inquire directly of nature, using accelerators. (Web site)
2. An additional ~ 2700 radioactive isotopes not found in nature have been created in nuclear reactors and in particle accelerators.

Study

1. Therefore cosmology gives us a way to study an important piece of particle physics inaccessible to accelerators. (Web site)
2. Radiation is unavoidable at particle accelerators like the LHC. The particle collisions that allow us to study the origin of matter also generate radiation.

Positron Emission Tomography

1. Hospitals use accelerators to produce these short-lived isotopes and use them as medical markers in Positron Emission Tomography. (Web site)

Universe

1. Particles that cannot be produced easily in accelerators can have drastic effects in the early universe. (Web site)
2. Our accelerators and theories can only test and hypothesize on the growth of the universe after the bang. (Web site)
3. Of course, data from particle accelerators provides meaningful insight into the early universe as well.

Neutron

1. As these accelerators revealed more and more details of the nucleus, researchers realized that the proton and neutron could not be simple objects.

Nuclei

1. So far, about 3,000 nuclei have been created using accelerators. (Web site)

Antimony

1. Organic reaction accelerators having trivalent nitrogen, phosphorus, antimony and bismuth are particularly preferred. (Web site)

Higgs

1. Using particle accelerators, scientists are now hunting for the Higgs. (Web site)

Physics

1. Truly, we study the brush strokes of physics in our particle accelerators, and the grand portrait of those strokes as it is painted on the night sky. (Web site)

Alpha Particle

1. Heavy ions: Projectiles heavier than the alpha particle can be produced and made energetic with accelerators. (Web site)

Nuclear Reactions

1. Matter can be accelerated beyond this speed during nuclear reactions and in particle accelerators.

Collisions

1. Collisions at accelerators can occur either against a fixed target, or between two beams of particles.

High Energy

1. The development of accelerators, for hurling these projectile-particles to high energy, has made it possible to observe thousands of nuclear reactions. (Web site)

Elementary Particles

1. The physicists found many (1000) new elementary particles in accelerators. (Web site)

Particle Detectors

1. In this way they are phenomenologically similar to neutrinos, and so are not directly observable in particle detectors at accelerators. (Web site)

Antiprotons

1. Soon, we produced antiprotons (1955) in accelerators and finally, in 1995, we combined a positron with an antiproton to produce an antimatter atom. (Web site)
2. There are no antiprotons or antineutrons, made up from antiquarks, except for a few that physicists produce in large particle accelerators.
3. These high-energy particle accelerators only produce one or two picograms of antiprotons each year. (Web site)

Magnetic Fields

1. Circular accelerators, or synchrotrons (pronounced SIN-krow-trons), use magnetic fields to accelerate charged particles in a circle. (Web site)

Synchrotron Radiation

1. Because in most accelerators the particle trajectories are bent by magnetic fields, synchrotron radiation is also called Magneto-Bremsstrahlung.
2. Synchrotron radiation is used in particle accelerators in radiation damping, a method of reducing beam emittance. (Web site)

Cosmic Rays

1. Using particle accelerators, physicists can mimic the action of cosmic rays and create collisions at high energy (see the figure). (Web site)
2. Historically a lot of particles were found in cosmic rays and created using accelerators. (Web site)
3. Since many particles need to be created in high energy particle accelerators or cosmic rays, sometimes particle physics is also called high energy physics. (Web site)

Nuclear

1. Physics researchers use alpha particles (helium nuclei) in particle accelerators and nuclear reaction experiments. (Web site)
2. ECR ion sources are used as injectors into linear accelerators, Van-de-Graaff generators or cyclotrons in nuclear and elementary particle physics.

Particles

1. All accelerators use electric fields (steady, alternating, or induced) to speed up particles; most use magnetic fields to contain and focus the beam. (Web site)
2. But when those particles are smashed together violently enough in particle accelerators, the Higgs should appear as a particle itself. (Web site)
3. Particles are routinely pushed to these speeds in accelerators so the theory is well established. (Web site)

Experiments

1. Experiments using accelerators give us data to refine our understanding of the atom as well as make new atoms.
2. Physicists design and perform experiments with lasers, particle accelerators, telescopes, mass spectrometers, and other equipment. (Web site)
3. People used to think the neutron attracted protons by electrostatics, but experiments with particle accelerators and so on have shown that to be false.

Energy

1. Depending on the energy and the particle being accelerated, circular accelerators suffer a disadvantage in that the particles emit synchrotron radiation.
2. One, its energy is totally within reacheable range of today's running accelerators, but the cross-section is just too small to be detectable. (Web site)

Energies

1. The energies that we can explore in accelerators allow us to create particles of just the masses that we expect superparticles to have. (Web site)
2. Cosmic rays can have energies of over 10 20 eV, far higher than the 10 12 to 10 13 eV that man-made particle accelerators can produce.
3. Cosmic radiation includes many types of particles, some having energies far exceeding anything achieved in particle accelerators. (Web site)

Higgs Boson

1. Although the evidence for the Higgs mechanism is overwhelming, accelerators have yet to produce the Higgs boson and evaluate its physical properties.
2. To find that answer physicists try to find via large accelerators the Higgs boson which should be a spin-zero particle with nonzero mass. (Web site)

Scientists

1. This book provides a valuable reference for scientists and engineers in the field of accelerators, and all users of synchrotron radiation.
2. This state may be briefly attainable in particle accelerators, and allows scientists to observe the properties of individual quarks, and not just theorize.
3. Scientists have designed accelerators capable of making bombardments with even larger particles than those required in producing the preceding examples. (Web site)

Directx

1. It could also be rendered by the programmable pixel shaders of later DirectX 8.0 accelerators like the GeForce 3 and Radeon 8500.
2. It is also one of the components of DirectX and supported by all gaming-oriented 3D accelerators so far. (Web site)
3. In particular, DirectX lets multimedia applications take advantage of hardware acceleration features supported by graphics accelerators.

Cern

1. Traditionally, CERN has operated its accelerators on an annual cycle, running for seven to eight months with a four to five month shutdown each year.
2. The instruments used at CERN are particle accelerators and detectors. (Web site)

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