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Nuclear & particle physics
Of or realting to the field of physics that involves the properties and interactions of atomic nuclei.
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Nuclear & particle physics
Large Hadron Collider (LHC)
Physics; Nuclear & particle physics
The powerful collider at the the European organisation for Nuclear Research CERN that has been under development for 20 years. LHC has a total project cost of 10 billion Swiss francs (5 billion ...
Higgs boson
Physics; Nuclear & particle physics
A theoretical particle which is thought to give matter its mass, known as the "God particle." First proposed by Peter Higgs of the University of Edinburgh in 1964. The LHC should confirm whether it ...
Standard principle
Physics; Nuclear & particle physics
The standard theory of modern physics, based on two other theories -- general relativity and quantum mechanics. Its main weakness is that it cannot yet fully describe gravity or mass.
Collider
Physics; Nuclear & particle physics
An accelerator in which two beams travelling in opposite directions are steered together to induce high-energy collisions between particles in one beam and those in the other.
Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)
Physics; Nuclear & particle physics
The part of living cells that determines hereditary characteristics. It consists of two long chains of alternating phosphate and deoxyribose units twisted into a double helix and joined at the axis ...
Curie (Ci)
Physics; Nuclear & particle physics
The basic unit used to describe the intensity of radioactivity in a sample of material. One curie equals thirty-seven billion disintegrations per second, or approximately the radioactivity of one ...
