At the KEK high-energy accelerator in Tsukuba, Japan, Imai and his colleagues smashed kaons--two-quark particles with a strange component--into diamond, creating X-particles, which each contain two strange quarks.
I compared it to Piranesi's etchings because of the strange spatial component and the shades of gray.
iFixit's excellent-as-always teardown finds a wealth of strange new components inside the biggest redesign of the device in years.
Both groups of children with epilepsy performed more poorly than control children on the Mental Stories component of the Strange Stories task, F 2,101)=3.2, p<0.001.
Using polarized beams one will be able to explore the polarized quark and gluon distributions of the nucleon at the few percent level, especially the strange and light quark sea components.
In extended passages Mr. Current uses the voices almost like instruments, producing set pieces that seem less like operatic ensembles and more like strange hybrid orchestral compositions with vocal components.
Strange quarks (charge −1/3e) occur as components of K mesons and various other extremely short-lived subatomic particles that were first observed in cosmic rays but that play no part in ordinary matter.
At that point, not only will the strange effects of quantum mechanics hold sway, the components themselves will be on the scale of atoms and no further size-reduction will be possible.
Thus, it is difficult to say if the observed activity is due to encoding of the individual components of the face-name pair (the faces and the names), encoding the association between the pair components, or due to novelty detection (Strange et al., 1999).
Protons and other subatomic particles, exposed momentarily to forces and temperatures on the order of the Big Bang's, explode into a menagerie of exotic components: positrons, antiprotons, muons, taus, charm and strange quarks and, of course, bosons.
