angel particle
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Named by US researchers in 2017, in reference to Dan Brown's novelAngels & Demons(2000), which involves a bomb made of combinedmatterandantimatter.
Noun
[edit]angelparticle(pluralangel particles)
- (physics)AMajorana particle.
- 2017July 21, Michael Irving, “Scientists discover" angel particle "that is its own antiparticle”, inNew Atlas[1]:
- Zhang proposes that the team's discovery be named the "angel particle"after the Dan Brown novel Angels and Demons, which features a bomb powered by the meeting of matter and antimatter. In the long run, Majoranas could find practical application in making quantum computers more secure.
- 2020January 3, Sam Sholtis, “The case of the elusive Majorana: The so-called 'angel particle' is still a mystery”, inPhys.Org[2]:
- A team of physicists at Penn State and the University of Wurzburg in Germany led by Cui-Zu Chang, an assistant professor of physics at Penn State studied over three dozen devices similar to the one used to produce theangel particlein the 2017 report. They found that the feature that was claimed to be the manifestation of theangel particlewas unlikely to be induced by the existence of theangel particle.