• In quantum mechanics, the case of a particle in a one-dimensional ring is similar to the particle in a box. The Schrödinger equation for a free particle...
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    A particle accelerator is a machine that uses electromagnetic fields to propel charged particles to very high speeds and energies, and to contain them...
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    In quantum mechanics, the particle in a box model (also known as the infinite potential well or the infinite square well) describes the movement of a...
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    Jovian ring system is faint and consists mainly of dust. It has four main components: a thick inner torus of particles known as the "halo ring"; a relatively...
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    particles, ranging in size from micrometers to meters, that orbit around Saturn. The ring particles are made almost entirely of water ice, with a trace component...
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  • The ring-imaging Cherenkov, or RICH, detector is a device for identifying the type of an electrically charged subatomic particle of known momentum, that...
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    the main rings. The rings are extremely dark—the Bond albedo of the rings' particles does not exceed 2%. They are probably composed of water ice with the...
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  • A ring current is an electric current carried by charged particles trapped in a planet's magnetosphere. It is caused by the longitudinal drift of energetic...
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  • Wave–particle duality is the concept in quantum mechanics that quantum entities exhibit particle or wave properties according to the experimental circumstances...
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    Shepherd moon (redirect from Ring shepherd)
    material or keeps particles within a ring contained. The name is a result of their limiting the "herd" of the ring particles as a shepherd. Due to their...
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    Hückel method, although it can also be justified by considering a particle in a ring system, by the LCAO method and by the Pariser–Parr–Pople method....
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    The particles in Neptune's rings are made from a dark material; probably a mixture of ice with radiation-processed organics. The rings are reddish in color...
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    Particle physics or high-energy physics is the study of fundamental particles and forces that constitute matter and radiation. The field also studies...
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  • particle in a ring particle in a spherically symmetric potential quantum harmonic oscillator hydrogen atom ring wave guide particle in a one-dimensional...
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    A linear particle accelerator (often shortened to linac) is a type of particle accelerator that accelerates charged subatomic particles or ions to a high...
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    A synchrotron is a particular type of cyclic particle accelerator, descended from the cyclotron, in which the accelerating particle beam travels around...
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    A storage ring is a type of circular particle accelerator in which a continuous or pulsed particle beam may be kept circulating, typically for many hours...
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    Hadron-Elektron-Ringanlage, English: Hadron–Electron Ring Accelerator) was a particle accelerator at DESY in Hamburg. It was operated from 1992 to 30 June 2007...
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    containing a beam, which travel in opposite directions around the ring. The beams intersect at four points around the ring, which is where the particle collisions...
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  • Collider (redirect from Particle collider)
    may either be ring accelerators or linear accelerators. Colliders are used as a research tool in particle physics by accelerating particles to very high...
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    tau lepton, tau particle, tauon or tau electron, is an elementary particle similar to the electron, with negative electric charge and a spin of 1/2. Like...
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    In physics, a "coffee ring" is a pattern left by a puddle of particle-laden liquid after it evaporates. The phenomenon is named for the characteristic...
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  • In experimental and applied particle physics, nuclear physics, and nuclear engineering, a particle detector, also known as a radiation detector, is a...
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    in the form of an equatorial disk of particles perhaps several decimeters to approximately a meter in diameter and that contains several denser rings...
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  • Extra Low ENergy Antiproton ring (ELENA) is a 30 m hexagonal storage ring that decelerates antiproton beams and delivers it to different AD experiments...
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  • well The one-dimensional triangular potential The particle in a ring or ring wave guide The particle in a spherically symmetric potential The quantum harmonic...
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  • coefficient is unity at zero energy. Free particle Particle in a box Finite potential well Particle in a ring Particle in a spherically symmetric potential Quantum...
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    plane, even as they stretch it out in the radial direction. Imagining the rings to be sand or gravel particles ("dust") in orbit around Saturn, the tidal...
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  • part of an engine Ring of bells, a set of bells hung for English full circle ringing Storage ring, a type of particle accelerator Torus, a doughnut shape...
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    Cassini–Huygens (category All Wikipedia articles written in American English)
    oscillations in its gravitational field. This energy is absorbed by ring particles in specific locations, where it accumulates until it is released in a wave...
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