particle physics
particle physics
Definition
particle physics
noun
the branch of physics employing high-energy particles to study the properties of atomic nuclei and of the elementary particles themselves
particle physics
Usage Examples
Adjective modifier
- elementary: Keywords: Elementary, Particle physics, Hadrons, Phase space, Monte carlo, Rapidity, Integration, Importance sampling.
Modifies a noun
- experiment: The future of particle physics experiments relys on large scale distributed computing systems.
- laboratory: Its know-how came from CERN, the particle physics laboratory supported by PPARC.
- community: Over the last three years, the UK particle physics community has been at the cutting-edge of Grid development.
- detector: The largest and one of the most elaborate particle physics detectors ever built, ATLAS will also pose a computing challenge of monumental scale.
- today: By the end of the course we will have covered many of the major issues confronting particle physics today.
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