In particle physics, a trigger is a system that uses criteria to rapidly decide which events in a particle detector to keep when only a small fraction...
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Neutrino (redirect from Ν particle)
with Fermi at the Institute of Physics of via Panisperna in Rome, in order to distinguish this light neutral particle from Chadwick's heavy neutron. In...
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Higgs boson (redirect from God particle (physics))
Higgs boson, sometimes called the Higgs particle, is an elementary particle in the Standard Model of particle physics produced by the quantum excitation of...
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firearms Trigger (particle physics), in a particle detector Database trigger, procedural code in a database Image trigger, in a digital camera Trigger, an...
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gas) characterized by the presence of a significant portion of charged particles in any combination of ions or electrons. It is the most abundant form...
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Computational particle physics refers to the methods and computing tools developed in and used by particle physics research. Like computational chemistry...
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Large Hadron Collider (redirect from Hadron particle accelerator)
is a type of a particle accelerator that brings two opposing particle beams together such that the particles collide. In particle physics, colliders, though...
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Annihilation (redirect from Annihilation (particle physics))
In particle physics, annihilation is the process that occurs when a subatomic particle collides with its respective antiparticle to produce other particles...
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In modern physics, antimatter is defined as matter composed of the antiparticles (or "partners") of the corresponding particles in "ordinary" matter,...
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Mohammad Sajjad Alam (category Particle physicists)
American particle physicist. His work focused on particle physics and computational physics. He played a significant role in several major particle physics experiments...
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Wire chamber (category Experimental particle physics)
and drift chambers Retrieved 2012-02-25 W.Frass. Physics - C4: Particle Physics Major Option - Particle Detectors. Oxford University. p. 11. Retrieved 2012-02-25...
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ultimately leading to the modern wave-particle duality concept.: 315 The contradictory results that triggered Bohr's ideas had been building up over...
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line), a synchronizer to act as an external trigger for control of the camera and laser, the seeding particles and the fluid under investigation. A fiber-optic...
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Cloud chamber (category Particle detectors)
Thomson Rees Wilson. They played a prominent role in experimental particle physics from the 1920s to the 1950s, until the advent of the bubble chamber...
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Coincidence method (redirect from Coincidence Method (particle physics))
In particle physics, the coincidence method (or coincidence technique) is an experimental design through which particle detectors register two or more...
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Collider (redirect from Particle collider)
a research tool in particle physics by accelerating particles to very high kinetic energy and letting them impact other particles. Analysis of the byproducts...
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ATLAS experiment (category Particle experiments)
performance". Nuclear and Particle Physics Proceedings. 270: 3–7. Bibcode:2016NPPP..270....3P. doi:10.1016/j.nuclphysbps.2016.02.002. "Trigger and Data Acquisition...
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Energy (redirect from Energy (physics))
particle physics, this inequality permits a qualitative understanding of virtual particles, which carry momentum. The exchange of virtual particles with...
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Compact Muon Solenoid (category Particle experiments)
Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment is one of two large general-purpose particle physics detectors built on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN in Switzerland...
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DELPHI experiment (category Particle experiments)
Archived 2007-11-25 at the Wayback Machine, Big Bang Science, booklet, Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council. Accessed on line November 30, 2007...
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Time projection chamber (category Particle detectors)
In physics, a time projection chamber (TPC) is a type of particle detector that uses a combination of electric fields and magnetic fields together with...
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Future Circular Collider (category Particle physics facilities)
proposal for particle physics experiments. The launch of the FCC study was also in line with the recommendations of the United States’ Particle Physics Project...
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BES III (category Particle experiments)
(BES III) is a particle physics experiment at the Beijing Electron–Positron Collider II (BEPC II) at the Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP). It is...
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Spark chamber (category Particle detectors)
A spark chamber is a particle detector: a device used in particle physics for detecting electrically charged particles. They were most widely used as...
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LHCb experiment (category Particle experiments)
24111; 6.09694 The LHCb (Large Hadron Collider beauty) experiment is a particle physics detector collecting data at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. LHCb...
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DØ experiment (category Particle experiments)
circulating in the Tevatron to test many aspects of the Standard Model of particle physics. The DØ detector consisted of several nested subdetector groups surrounding...
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the Standard Model, the current theoretical picture for particle physics. The first particle collisions at the LHC took place shortly after startup in...
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Light (section Particle theory)
electromagnetic radiation exhibits some properties of both particles and waves. Single, massless elementary particles, or quanta, of light called photons can be detected...
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Theory of everything (category Physics beyond the Standard Model)
Mathematics of a particle physics modelPages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets Superfluid vacuum theory – Theory of fundamental physics (SVT) The...
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Compton scattering (category Atomic physics)
energy comparable to the charged particle rest energy and higher. As a consequence NICS photons can be used to trigger other phenomena such as pair production...
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