positrons in English

noun
1
a subatomic particle with the same mass as an electron and a numerically equal but positive charge.
The term accelerators most commonly refers to particle accelerators, devices for increasing the velocity of subatomic particles such as protons, electrons, and positrons .
noun
    antielectron

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1. The Antimatter counterparts of electrons are known as positrons

2. Noun antimatter matter composed only of antiparticles, especially antiprotons, Antineutrons, and positrons

3. 1; noun antimatter Molecules formed by atoms consisting of antiprotons, Antineutrons, and positrons

4. Electrons and protons are forms of ordinary matter, but positrons are antimatter particles.

5. The Dark Era begins when space is dominated by tiny particles such as photons, electrons and positrons.

6. Instead they would produce gamma rays, neutrinos and antimatter such as positrons and antiprotons, Gondolo said.

7. Currents of many other kinds exist, such as beams of protons, positrons, or charged pions and muons in particle accelerators

8. Antiprotons and positrons are brought into the ALPHA trap from opposite ends and held there by electric and magnetic fields

9. The first of the Antiparticles to be detected, positrons were discovered by Carl David Anderson in cloud-chamber studies of the

10. Everyday matter is made up of protons, neutrons or electrons.These particles have counterparts known as antiparticles — antiprotons, Antineutrons and positrons, respectively — …

11. As a result, many particles with strange-sounding names are written about—positrons, photons, mesons, quarks, and gluons, to name but a few.

12. Antineutrons, the heavier nuclei formed by antiprotons and Antineutrons bound together, and positrons, bind together and exhibit quantum transitions that are identical in every measurable way to

13. An antimatter world would look much like our own, with antiprotons and Antineutrons combining with positrons (the antimatter version of an electron) to form antiatoms and even antimolecules.

14. Upon further deformation to 20% strain, the overall defect concentration becomes so high that all positrons become trapped for which reason no absolute defect concentrations can be deduced.

15. The renowned British physicist Paul Dirac first posited the existence of Antimatter in 1928, and four years later researchers at Caltech detected the first documented antiparticles—positrons produced by …

16. If equal amounts of matter and Antimatter had formed in the Big Bang more than 13 billion years ago, one would have annihilated the other… Science November 24, 2017 How Gamma-Rays from Lightning Produce Radioisotopes and Positrons

17. Recent Examples on the Web In contrast, the higher energies used in the ALPHA experiment slow Antiprotons and positrons down enough for the particles to form atoms of antihydrogen for more in-depth study

18. In 1934 Marie Curie's daughter (Irène Joliot-Curie) and son-in-law (Frédéric Joliot-Curie) were the first to create artificial radioactivity: they bombarded boron with alpha particles to make the neutron-poor isotope nitrogen-13; this isotope emitted positrons.

19. It's composed of particles that are, individually, antiparticles of the various building blocks of matter, such as positrons (antiparticles of electrons) and Antiprotons (antiparticles of protons).These antiparticles are identical in most ways to their regular matter counterparts, except that they have the opposite charge.

20. It's composed of particles that are, individually, Antiparticles of the various building blocks of matter, such as positrons (Antiparticles of electrons) and antiprotons (Antiparticles of protons).These Antiparticles are identical in most ways to their regular matter counterparts, except that they have the opposite charge.

21. Antimatter, substance composed of subatomic particles that have the mass, electric charge, and magnetic moment of the electrons, protons, and neutrons of ordinary matter but for which the electric charge and magnetic moment are opposite in sign.The antimatter particles corresponding to electrons, protons, and neutrons are called positrons (e +), Antiprotons (p), and antineutrons (n

22. When a low-energy electron Annihilates a low-energy positron (antielectron), the most probable is the creation of two or more photons, since the only other final-state Standard Model particles that electrons and positrons carry enough mass-energy to produce are neutrinos, which are approximately 10,000 times less likely to produce, and the creation of only one photon is