How to Use axion in a Sentence

axion

noun
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  • After a humble start, the axion is now surging in the race.
    — Adam Hadhazy, Discover Magazine, 15 Nov. 2019
  • Fuzzy dark matter axions would be even lighter than this.
    — Robert Lea, Popular Mechanics, 3 Aug. 2023
  • This is the shape of the mathematical function defining the axion field.
    — Quanta Magazine, 17 Mar. 2020
  • But axions may be making a comeback, or at least holding steady while WIMPs faceplant.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 21 Apr. 2023
  • The axion-like particle would then travel across the vastness of space unimpeded.
    — Quanta Magazine, 26 Oct. 2022
  • Physicists suspect that this signals the existence of a new kind of particle—the axion—that formed in the early universe and has the right properties to be dark matter.
    — Priyamvada Natarajan, The New York Review of Books, 15 June 2021
  • Thus, Hertzberg was already quite familiar with axions.
    — Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, Scientific American, 1 Apr. 2022
  • Enter the axion, the second-most promising candidate for dark matter.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 17 Oct. 2019
  • Physicists originally cooked up the axion to explain why neutrons don’t spin in electric fields.
    — Adam Hadhazy, Discover Magazine, 11 June 2017
  • The hunt for wispy particles called axions, which might make up the dark matter whose gravity keeps galaxies from falling apart, is heating up.
    — Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 9 Apr. 2018
  • The Sun could be producing a novel type of (candidate dark matter) particle known as an axion.
    — Ethan Siegel, Forbes, 27 Apr. 2021
  • To demonstrate their idea, Jiang and Wilczek focused on an unorthodox set of rules called axion electrodynamics, which could give rise to unique properties.
    — Quanta Magazine, 25 Sep. 2018
  • Because only a small number of those photons would match the axion frequency, few would trigger an axion conversion.
    — Rachel Courtland, IEEE Spectrum, 1 May 2014
  • Other axion searches use our sun, which is expected to produce axions in its interior that then stream into space.
    — Quanta Magazine, 19 Oct. 2021
  • What is intriguing, is that the high-energy photo may have been converted into an axion-like particle.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 1 Nov. 2022
  • Then there are theorized particles like SIMPs and axions—and countless other potential clues.
    — Joe Lindsey, Popular Mechanics, 28 May 2019
  • The new idea, which goes by the name axiogenesis, could further motivate experimental searches for the axion.
    — Quanta Magazine, 17 Mar. 2020
  • Wilczek came up with the theory in 1987 to describe how a hypothetical particle called an axion would interact with electricity and magnetism.
    — Quanta Magazine, 25 Sep. 2018
  • If an oscillating axion field matched this frequency, an axion could be converted into microwave radiation with that same frequency.
    — Rachel Courtland, IEEE Spectrum, 1 May 2014
  • Or hypothesized particles called axions that interact with magnetic fields might be detected in laboratories or in space.
    — Lisa Randall, Scientific American, 8 May 2018
  • Wilczek is enthusiastic about the many experimental efforts currently underway to detect the axion.
    — Priyamvada Natarajan, The New York Review of Books, 15 June 2021
  • However, neutron stars may provide a sort of amplification, making axions visible.
    — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 20 Dec. 2018
  • Alternatively, dark matter may consist of some possible elementary particles known as QCD axions that are extremely lightweight.
    — Kat Friedrich, Popular Mechanics, 10 Mar. 2023

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