News tagged with positrons
A Flight Simulator for the World's Smallest Beam
Mar 31, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Commissioning has begun at the Japan-based Accelerator Test Facility 2, a major technology test bed for future accelerators, including the proposed International Linear Collider, or ILC. During ...
Billions of particles of anti-matter created in laboratory
Nov 17, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Take a gold sample the size of the head of a push pin, shoot a laser through it, and suddenly more than 100 billion particles of anti-matter appear.
Proposed Particle Help Explains Odd Galactic Photons
Jul 25, 2008 |
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In 2002, a satellite called INTEGRAL was launched by the European Space Agency with an instrument on board to detect and measure gamma rays from space. Four years later, it yielded some intriguing data: An unusually high ...
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Has PAMELA Already Seen Dark Matter?
Aug 25, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Back in 2006, PAMELA (a Payload for Antimatter Matter Exploration and Light-nuclei Astrophysics) was launched with the purpose of detecting cosmic radiation and looking for clues pointing ...
Integral satellite disproves dark matter origin for mystery radiation
Jul 22, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of researchers working with data from ESA’s Integral gamma-ray observatory has disproved theories that some form of dark matter explains mysterious radiation in the Milky Way.
Physicists on the prowl for dark matter
Jul 23, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- 95%. That is the percentage of the known Universe that is missing. As in it is not there. Or at least if it is there, we can't see it. We call this unseen stuff "dark matter". That has been ...
Simple Explanation for Mysterious Observations
Aug 18, 2009 |
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Recently, several astronomical experiments have revealed mysterious components of elementary particles. But up until now, the origin of electrons and positrons is unknown. Is dark matter the actual origin of this radiation, ...
Astrophysicists solve mystery in Milky Way galaxy
Jul 09, 2009 |
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A team of astrophysicists has solved a mystery that led some scientists to speculate that the distribution of certain gamma rays in our Milky Way galaxy was evidence of a form of undetectable "dark matter" ...
Integral discovers the galaxy’s antimatter cloud is lopsided
Jan 09, 2008 |
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The shape of the mysterious cloud of antimatter in the central regions of the Milky Way has been revealed by ESA’s orbiting gamma-ray observatory Integral. The unexpectedly lopsided shape is a new clue to ...
Fingers, Loops and Bays in the Crab Nebula
Nov 06, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- This image gives the first clear view of the faint boundary of the Crab Nebula's X-ray-emitting pulsar wind nebula. The nebula is powered by a rapidly-rotating, highly-magnetized neutron star, ...
Particles as tracers for the most massive explosions in the Milky Way
Aug 11, 2009 |
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Astronomers recently observed a mysterious flux of particles in the universe, and the hope was born that this may be the first observation of the remnants of "dark matter". But scientists from the University ...
Dark matter: Physicists may have found piece of the puzzle
Apr 01, 2009 |
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European astronomers said on Wednesday that an anomalous energy signal detected by an orbiting satellite could be a telltale of the enigmatic substance known as dark matter.
Advancing the study of antimatter
Mar 26, 2008 |
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“Right now, most physicists would predict that hydrogen and antihydrogen have the same properties,” Gerald Gabrielse tells Physorg.com, “What’s irresistible is that we of the opportunity to – potentially – look for tiny d ...
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