Particle physics

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radiosondes

Physics; Particle physics

Instruments, usually balloonborne, for the simultaneous measurement and transmission of meteorological data while moving vertically through the atmosphere.

atobarn (ab)

Physics; Particle physics

10 barns. A unit used to measure cross-section. The inverse of this unit is used to measure integrated luminosity.

Accelerators are ring-shaped or linear devices that accelerate charged particles. More powerful than any other microscope, high-energy accelerators allow physicists to study matter at the smallest ...

antimatter

Physics; Particle physics

All particles of ordinary matter (electrons, protons, neutrons) have anti-matter partners that appear identical in all respects (e.g. mass, spin) except that they have the opposite electric charge. ...