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Proton in sentence

24 examples of Proton in a sentence

The proton is obviously made of a whole bunch of little particles; this was more or less known.
The experiments that were going on were very simple: you simply take the proton, and you hit it really sharply with an electron.
Just think of the proton as an assemblage, a swarm, of little particles."
I suppose it is, so I won't say "revolution," but it certainly evolved very, very deeply our understanding of the proton, and of particles beyond that.
Electric fields are not ionizing radiation, like X-rays or proton beams, that bombard tissue to disrupt DNA.
So this is similar to the reaction of the proton chain that's going on inside the Sun.
And the same is true for their heavy cousins, the proton and the antiproton.
Hydrogen has one proton, helium, two protons, lithium, three protons, and so on.
Every atom has a core, which is made up of at least one positively charged particle called a proton, and in most cases, some number of neutral particles called neutrons.
Hydrogen is hydrogen because it has just one proton, carbon is carbon because it has six, gold is gold because it has 79, and so on.
My colleagues and I held our breath and bit our fingernails, and then finally we saw the first proton collisions at this highest energy ever.
I can briefly beat gravity when I jump, but I can't pick a proton out of my hand.
A proton contains two “up” quarks and one “down” quark.
The first gravitational wave produced a difference in the distance of four-thousandths of a proton over four kilometers.
When a proton slams into one of these heavier oxygen atoms, it kicks out another subatomic particle called a neutron.
These particles must have just as much mass and energy as is carried in by the proton and antiproton.
So when two up quarks and a down quark are combined to make a proton, it has a total electric charge of plus one.
The geometric mean of the mass of a proton and the mass of the sun is 50 kilograms, within a factor of two of the mass of each person here.
What about neutrino heavy proton beams?
The Mind’s New EyeCAMBRIDGE – Modern physics and cosmology suggest that basic truths about how nature operates, and how our universe arose, are visible only to those who can see events that occur faster than the time it takes for light to cross a proton, and whose vision can resolve sub-nuclear distances.
By smashing protons together with unprecedented energy, monitoring the many particles that emerge from the collisions, and reconstructing the primary events that produced them, physicists will in effect have constructed the fastest, highest-resolution microscope ever, with each proton taking a snapshot of the other’s interior.
In the case of GW150914, the length changed by less than one-thousandth of the size of a proton.
But, at larger distances, comparable to the proton radius, the force becomes really strong, and a very large number of gluons is involved, forming complicated structures that are not well known today.
The latest research indicates that Higgs particles (if they exist) should be among the most massive critters of the subatomic realm, more than 120 times as massive as the familiar proton.