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The weak force is with the clockwise electrons.

Source :
New Scientist. 5/1/2004, Vol. 182 Issue 2445, p19-19. 1/4p.
Publication Year :
2004

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