Today, we call those particles cosmic rays. Now, H.E.S.S. scientists are excited because they’ve detected the highest energy electrons and positrons to date (a positron is like the "opposite" of an electron because it has the mass of an electron, but is positively charged like a ...
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An MIT study reported that incoming cosmic rays may limit qubit performance, impeding progress in quantum computing. The practicality of quantum computing hangs on the integrity of the quantum bit, or qubit. Qubits, the logic elements of quantum computers, are coherent two-level systems that repres...
Since most cosmic rays are charged, their paths through space are deflected by magnetic fields. On their journey to Earth, the magnetic fields of the galaxy, the solar system, and the earth scramble their flight paths so much that we can no longer know exactly where they came from. Many c...
Chen said one popular hypothesis is that the high-energy neutrinos and gamma rays are potentially produced simultaneously when high-energy cosmic rays originate. "If we can detect the two particles together, we can determine the origin of the cosmic rays," said Chen. ...
BEIJING, Sept. 29 (Xinhua) -- The following are the highlights of China's key technology news from the past week: COSMIC RAYS An international research team has conducted a precise measurement of the spectrum of protons, the most abundant component of cosmic rays, in an energy range from 40...
These findings were published in the Nov. 1 online issue of the journal Nature, and are being featured today in a press conference at the Fermi Science Symposium in Washington, DC. The rarest cosmic rays carry over 100 billion times as much energy as generated by any particle accelerator on...
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11. Study of Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays Today Today astrophysicists study ultra-high energy cosmic rays using both ground arrays and satellites. On Earth they measure the cosmic ray spectrum and neutrino flux, while in space it is extragalactic background radiation, the part of which is radi...
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