The 2m Bubble Chamber was a device used in conjunction with CERN's 25 GeV Proton Synchrotron (PS) machine to study high-energy physics. It was decided...
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is the spark chamber. 30 cm Bubble Chamber (CERN) 81 cm Saclay Bubble Chamber 2 m Bubble Chamber (CERN) Berne Infinitesimal Bubble Chamber Bevatron, a...
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trails of gaseous ionization. The technique was an improvement over the bubble chamber particle detection method, which used photographic techniques, as it...
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The Big European Bubble Chamber (BEBC) is a large detector formerly used to study particle physics at CERN. The chamber body, a stainless-steel vessel...
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made through experiments at CERN. They include: 1973: The discovery of neutral currents in the Gargamelle bubble chamber; 1983: The discovery of W and...
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Bubble Chamber, BIBC, was almost pocket size, 6.5 centimetres across and with a visible volume containing about a wine glass of heavy liquid. Bubble chambers...
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Gargamelle (category Bubble chambers operated at CERN)
Gargamelle was a heavy liquid bubble chamber detector in operation at CERN between 1970 and 1979. It was designed to detect neutrinos and antineutrinos...
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particle physics from the 1920s to the 1950s, until the advent of the bubble chamber. In particular, the discoveries of the positron in 1932 (see Fig. 1)...
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Proton Synchrotron (redirect from CERN Proton Synchrotron)
producing a secondary beam filtered by electrostatic separators to the CERN 2 m bubble chamber and additional experiments. Together with the construction of the...
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Switzerland, completed in 2008 by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN). It can accelerate beams of protons to an energy of 7 teraelectronvolts...
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light and transition radiation. Historical examples Bubble chamber Wilson cloud chamber (diffusion chamber) Photographic plate (Nuclear emulsion) Detectors...
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Jack Steinberger (category People associated with CERN)
use of a liquid-hydrogen bubble chamber. During 1954–1955, Steinberger contributed to the development of the bubble chamber with the construction of a...
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Cocconi's lab at CERN. He codiscovered the eta meson, and he probed particles at ever-higher energies by using heavy-liquid bubble chambers and, eventually...
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thereafter (also in 1973), in a neutrino experiment in the Gargamelle bubble chamber at CERN. Following the success of quantum electrodynamics in the 1950s,...
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Dieter Haidt (category People associated with CERN)
the Gargamelle experiment, which used a heavy liquid bubble chamber detector in operation at CERN from 1970 to 1979. In 1958 Haidt graduated from the Kepler-Gymnasium...
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thereafter in 1973, in a neutrino experiment in the Gargamelle bubble chamber at CERN. Charged current Flavor changing neutral current Neutral particle...
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The construction of the LExan Bubble Chamber, LEBC, was approved by the CERN Research Board on 16 November 1978. Bubble chambers are similar to cloud...
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George Condo at University of Tennessee to explain some anomalies from bubble chamber tracks but no definite proof of its existence had ever been obtained...
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Emanuele Quercigh (category People associated with CERN)
fellow at CERN and subsequently became a staff physicist. Initially Quercigh took part in various experiments using the CERN 2 m Bubble Chamber. Then he...
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Georges Charpak (category People associated with CERN)
staff of CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) in Geneva, where he invented and developed the multiwire proportional chamber. The chamber was patented...
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was discovered later by Connolly et al. (1963) in a 20 inch hydrogen bubble chamber at the Alternating Gradient Synchrotron (AGS) in Brookhaven National...
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Enshittification – Systematic decline in online platform quality Filter bubble – Intellectual isolation through internet algorithms Walled garden (technology) –...
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collaborated with colleagues at the Pierre Auger Observatory, the Big European Bubble Chamber (BEBC), the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, and the Cherenkov Telescope...
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Frank Beck (computer scientist) (category People associated with CERN)
recognition devices for bubble-chamber photographs. The machines for doing this involved interactive human interfaces. Activity at CERN in the meantime focussed...
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claim. A CERN-sponsored study group on controlled thermonuclear fusion met from 1958 to 1964. This group ceased when it became clear that CERN discontinued...
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accelerators that are exhibiting characteristic deceleration. In a bubble chamber, electrons will lose their energy more quickly than other particles...
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Nicholas P. Samios found an event generating a lambda baryon from their bubble chamber at Brookhaven National Laboratory. It took months for Palmer to be convinced...
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Magnetic horn (category CERN)
NOνA and MINERνA experiments, uses 2 magnetic horns to produce a 3GeV muon neutrino beam. The Gargamelle bubble chamber, in which the first neutral current...
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Tejinder Virdee (category People associated with CERN)
discovery of the new Higgs-like particle by the ATLAS and CMS collaborations at CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC)", and the European Physical Society High Energy...
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experimental physicist, winner of Nobel Prize in Physics in 1968 for bubble chamber research into particle physics. August 6 – Illa Martin, dendrologist...
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