What is "antielectron"

Usage examples of "antielectron".

The positronic cannon of the DIED ships were sometimes called Auger guns because of their use of a variation on the Auger effect by which suitably excited atoms emit, instead of electromagnetic radiation or an electron, an antielectron, or positron.

Once that state has been achieved, they are collided with heavy nuclei, resulting in a spray of elementary particles that includes antiprotons, antielectrons, and antineutrons.

The three quarks inside a proton normally do not have enough energy to change into antielectrons, but very occasionally one of them may acquire sufficient energy to make the transition because the uncertainty principle means that the energy of the quarks inside the proton cannot be fixed exactly.

As we have seen, GUTs allow quarks to change into antielectrons at high energy.

They also allow the reverse processes, antiquarks turning into electrons, and electrons and antielectrons turning into antiquarks and quarks.

And since there are forces that do not obey the symmetry T, it follows that as the universe expands, these forces could cause more antielectrons to turn into quarks than electrons into antiquarks.

So most of the electrons and antielectrons would have annihilated with each other to produce more photons, leaving only a few electrons left over.

And just as the electron and antielectron are closely associated with electron neutrinos and electron antineutrinos, so are muons and antimuons associated with muon neutrinos and muon antineutrinos.

For instance, the electron might have a mirror image, an antielectron, that would be identical to the electron in all its properties except that it would have a positive charge rather than a negative one.