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  •  Traditional photon rockets are proposed to be powered by onboard generators, as in the nuclear photonic rocket. The standard textbook case of such a rocket...
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  • Thumbnail for Nuclear physics
    Nuclear physics is the field of physics that studies atomic nuclei and their constituents and interactions, in addition to the study of other forms of...
    42 KB (4,971 words) - 21:16, 7 June 2024
  • showed the signatures of hydrogen nuclei. 1921 Alfred Landé introduces the Landé g-factor 1922 Arthur Compton studies X-ray photon scattering by electrons...
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  • Thumbnail for Weak interaction
    In nuclear physics and particle physics, the weak interaction, also called the weak force is one of the four known fundamental interactions, with the others...
    42 KB (4,611 words) - 23:45, 11 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Dual photon
    is to include a second four-vector potential, called dual photon, in addition to the usual four-vector potential, photon. Additionally, it is found that...
    11 KB (1,226 words) - 13:38, 6 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for W and Z bosons
    force, much as the photon is the carrier particle for the electromagnetic force. The W±  bosons are best known for their role in nuclear decay. Consider...
    38 KB (3,800 words) - 23:13, 17 June 2024
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    exchange particle for the interaction. Gluons are massless vector bosons, thereby having a spin of 1. Through the strong interaction, gluons bind quarks into...
    25 KB (2,665 words) - 12:11, 14 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mass–energy equivalence
    reactions or nuclear reactions, a corresponding amount of energy will be released. The energy can be released to the environment (outside of the system...
    93 KB (12,023 words) - 14:43, 19 June 2024
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    magnitude of the vector magnetic field. Magnetometers used to study the Earth's magnetic field may express the vector components of the field in terms of declination...
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  • Thumbnail for Higgs mechanism
    degree of freedom becomes a new scalar particle: the Higgs boson. The components that do not mix with Goldstone bosons form a massless photon. The gauge...
    56 KB (6,713 words) - 22:09, 12 June 2024
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    Solar sail (redirect from Photon Sail)
    sails, and photon sails) are a method of spacecraft propulsion using radiation pressure exerted by sunlight on large surfaces. A number of spaceflight...
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  • Weak charge (category Nuclear physics)
    zero, so the photon and Z boson are their own antiparticles: They are "truly neutral particles"; in particular, they are truly neutral vector bosons. Whilst...
    29 KB (3,482 words) - 07:58, 14 May 2024
  • between variables is the vector dot product; the factor   g a γ γ   {\displaystyle \ g_{a\gamma \gamma }\ } is the axion-to-photon coupling constant rendered...
    73 KB (7,458 words) - 21:23, 30 May 2024
  • materials science, nuclear physics, particle physics, and thermodynamics. For more inclusive glossaries concerning related fields of science and technology...
    111 KB (12,830 words) - 23:58, 23 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Nuclear magnetic resonance
    pulse to a set of nuclear spins simultaneously excites all the single-quantum NMR transitions. In terms of the net magnetization vector, this corresponds...
    79 KB (10,087 words) - 20:30, 16 June 2024
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    Higgs boson (category Wikipedia articles in need of updating from July 2018)
    transversality of the photon in all Lorentz frames, the photon field Aμ(x) cannot transform like a four-vector. This is no catastrophe, since the photon field...
    240 KB (26,273 words) - 03:56, 16 June 2024
  • warping of spacetime by a body in a given frame of reference is determined by its relativistic mass, not merely its invariant mass. For example, photons have...
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    Energy (redirect from Forms of energy)
    found in nuclear physics and particle physics. Often, however, the complete conversion of matter (such as atoms) to non-matter (such as photons) is forbidden...
    59 KB (7,468 words) - 19:27, 14 June 2024
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    Abdus Salam (category Fellows of Bangladesh Academy of Sciences)
    part of "Scientists of Pakistan", to honour the services of Salam. Salam's notable achievements include the Pati–Salam model, magnetic photon, vector meson...
    101 KB (10,277 words) - 14:16, 14 June 2024
  • Relaxation (NMR) (category Nuclear magnetic resonance)
    probability per unit time of the nuclear spin-1/2 transition from the + into the - state through spontaneous emission of a photon is a negligible phenomenon...
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