high energy physics
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- noun
- /haɪ ˈɛnərdʒi ˈfɪzɪks/
- Specialized
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física de altas energías
- High-energy physics went up 0.9% above 1999, to $695 million.
Examples
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The recent discovery of the Higgs boson was a significant achievement in high energy physics.
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And that even though I stayed doing high energy physics, I was running a big group at the time, Los Alamos.
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Even though the SLAC experiment cost very little by the standards of high-energy physics, it will probably be a long time before anyone does better.
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In both examples, the scale of the high-energy physics responsible for Lorentz breaking can be probed with unprecedented reach.
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High-energy physics and nuclear physics were given, respectively, $5.5 million and $2.5 million more than the Clinton Administration's request.
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DOE's budget for high-energy physics calls for reductions in the operations account at almost all of its laboratories, including cuts of 10% at SLAC and 2% at Brookhaven.
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With the CERN leadership passing to Chris Llewellyn-Smith at the end of 1993, this may be an opportune time for the international high-energy physics community to seriously make the move to full international collaboration in building our large instruments.
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For the first time, the department's total high-energy physics budget of $627.8 million would be surpassed by the separate SSC account, which amounts to $640 million.
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Fortunately, there are many precedents of international partnerships in innovation—from high-energy physics to astronomy and nuclear fusion.
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Mikhail Shifman is receiving the Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Prize for contributions to theoretical high energy physics, in particular for the understanding of strong interactions and dynamics of supersymmetric gauge theories, and for communicating the excitement of science to the public.
Academic text (2006)
Synonyms
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The science that studies very small parts of matter and how they interact
The study of very small particles and how they interact at very high energy
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase denotes a type of physics characterized by high levels of energy, which is directly and compositionally derived from 'high' (large/intense) + 'energy' (power/physical quantity) + 'physics' (the scientific field). This modifier + noun + noun pattern is transparent and cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows the constituent words can grasp that it refers to physics concerned with very high energies (even if they lack technical details).
Etymology
High energy physics comes from the simple idea of using very strong energy to study very small things. Imagine high energy as very fast, powerful hits and physics as the study of nature: when 'tiny particles' are smashed together like fast marbles we can see what they are made of, so the phrase means the study of tiny particles using very high energy.