How to Use elementary particle in a Sentence

elementary particle

noun

• Strings also appear in the way the strong force acts among quarks, which are the elementary particles that make up a proton.
  — Kevin Hartnett, Quanta Magazine, 18 Apr. 2023
• All the world is built out of 17 known elementary particles.
  — Quanta Magazine, 7 Aug. 2019
• Recent measurements of the mass of the elementary particle known as the W boson provide a useful case study as to why.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 24 Mar. 2023
• Palmer played the Higgs boson — an elementary particle present in all things.
  — Greg Luca, Alia Malik and Krista Torralva |, ExpressNews.com, 31 May 2020
• Instead, it was first used to explain how protons and neutrons are made of elementary particles called quarks and gluons.
  — Katie McCormick, Quanta Magazine, 12 June 2023
• Instead, it was first used to explain how protons and neutrons are made of elementary particles called quarks and gluons.
  — WIRED, 10 Aug. 2023
• In 2014, a Japanese and a Canadian shared the physics prize for studies that proved that the elementary particles called neutrinos have mass.
  — Bloomberg.com, 4 Oct. 2017
• Physicists assume the stuff consists of some sort of elementary particle lingering from the big bang.
  — Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 26 Mar. 2021
• That's because any dust, gas, or elementary particle placed at the horizon should fall into the black hole, maintaining the vacuum state.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 17 Sep. 2019
• Then there are dozens of particles made up of those elementary particles, including hadrons, which are constructed of quarks and gluons, and mesons, made of a quark and anti-quark.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 19 June 2018
• Quarks and gluons are two such elementary particles that combine to form protons and neutrons.
  — Nandita Jayaraj, Quartz India, 27 Aug. 2019
• Controversy rages over something called the Rusakov field and an elementary particle known as Dust.
  — Katie Ward Beim-Esche, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Dec. 2017
• Viewed from afar, as if through a telescope, a black hole should behave like a planet, a star, or any other conglomerate of elementary particles.
  — Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 2 Aug. 2023
• Perl shared the Nobel Prize in 1995 for the kind of result that every physicist dreams of achieving, but few actually do: the discovery of a new elementary particle.
  — Sean Carroll, Discover Magazine, 2 Nov. 2011
• They're made of quarks, an elementary particle that serves as a building block for matter by coming together to form the protons and neutrons in atomic nuclei.
  — Eric Betz, Discover Magazine, 26 Mar. 2021
• This process has been previously been found to increase the number of muons, a damaging elementary particle that can mutate DNA.
  — Mara Johnson-Groh, Discover Magazine, 28 May 2019
• Answering these questions is the work of elementary particle physics.
  — Dennis Overbye, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2023
• Voids could even help to nail down the nature of —elementary particles, once thought to be massless, that pervade the universe while barely interacting with ordinary matter.
  — Michael D. Lemonick, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2024
• Physicists have found that an elementary particle called the W boson appears to be 0.1% too heavy — a tiny discrepancy that could foreshadow a huge shift in fundamental physics.
  — Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 7 Apr. 2022
• So, to widen their search, scientists are looking at lighter particles with less energy than a proton, an elementary particle found in the nucleus of every atom.
  — Korey Haynes, Discover Magazine, 14 June 2019
• Other elementary particles—those that researchers don’t believe can be divided any further—include six flavors of leptons and the Higgs, known as a scalar boson.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 19 June 2018
• The unstable nature of nothing gives rise to elementary particles.
  — Popular Mechanics, 31 Mar. 2023
• Physicists measure elementary particle masses in units of millions of electron volts – shortened to MeV.
  — John Conway, The Conversation, 14 Apr. 2022
• Now a fresh analysis of old CDF data has unearthed a stunning discrepancy in the mass of an elementary particle, the W boson, that could point the way to new, as yet undiscovered particles and interactions.
  — Daniel Garisto, Scientific American, 7 Apr. 2022
• The answer might involve very strange elementary particles known as neutrinos, which don’t have electrical charge and can thus act as either matter or antimatter.
  — Yasemin Saplakoglu, Scientific American, 3 Mar. 2020
• The theorem, simply put, is this: If physicists have free will while performing experiments, then elementary particles possess free will as well.
  — Siobhan Roberts, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Apr. 2020
• Research conducted there has resulted in several Nobel Prizes for Physics, including the 2013 prize for the discovery of an elementary particle known as the Higgs boson.
  — Aylin Woodward, WSJ, 9 Mar. 2022
• Illinois’s Tevatron accelerator lab, set to close later this year, finds possible evidence of what may be a new elementary particle or force of nature.
  — George Hackett, Scientific American, 1 June 2011
• The discovery filled in the last missing piece of the Standard Model, the spectacularly successful—albeit incomplete—theory that describes three of the four fundamental forces in physics and all known elementary particles.
  — Michael Greshko, National Geographic, 5 Dec. 2019
• The fast particles would have subsequently decayed into the quarks, electrons and other elementary particles that exist today.
  — Quanta Magazine, 1 Aug. 2019

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