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The weak force is with the clockwise electrons.
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New Scientist . 5/1/2004, Vol. 182 Issue 2445, p19-19. 1/4p. - Publication Year :
- 2004
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Abstract
- The weak force is one of the fundamental forces of nature, but unlike electromagnetism it exerts its effects over such a short range that they are usually only felt inside subatomic particles. The force is involved in radioactive decay, for example. Now, to get a direct measurement of weak charge, physicists at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center in California have fired bunches of a hundred billion electrons into a target of liquid hydrogen. The team reports in a paper to be published in "Physical Review Letters," that electrons are more likely to be deflected if they are spinning clockwise along their direction of motion, rather than anticlockwise.
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 02624079
- Volume :
- 182
- Issue :
- 2445
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- New Scientist
- Publication Type :
- Periodical
- Accession number :
- 13071870