Some of their work involved X-rays produced by particle accelerators, devices that bring atomic particles into high energies.

VOA: special.2009.12.08

When a light particle,or photon, hits an electron, the electron jumps to a higher energy state.

VOA: special.2010.09.01

Michael Barnett is a physicist at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory in California and one of the people behind The Particle Adventure.

VOA: standard.2010.03.05

It says climate change models show particle-producing fires will continue to increase in both frequency and intensity with rising global temperatures.

VOA: standard.2009.03.23

There's another path by which they can learn about accelerators and particle detectors essentially, how do we know any of this.

VOA: standard.2010.03.05

"Essentially,The Particle Adventure is an interactive tour of the world of quarks, neutrinos,antimatter, extra dimensions,dark matter, Higgs boson, as well as accelerators and particle detectors."

VOA: standard.2010.03.05

The Large Hadron Collider, of course,is the world's largest particle accelerator located near Geneva.

VOA: standard.2010.03.05

More powerful particle accelerators atom smashers, they used to call them have allowed physicists to learn ever more about the sub-atomic particles that are the basic building blocks of all matter.

VOA: standard.2010.03.05

For a free and highly readable introduction to the world of particle physics available in 15 languages as well as English transport yourself to particleadventure.org, or visit our site,VOAnews.com, for the link to this and hundredsof other Websites of the Week.

VOA: standard.2010.03.05