experimental and applied particle physics, nuclear physics, and nuclear engineering, a particle detector, also known as a radiation detector, is a device used...
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Cryogenic particle detectors operate at very low temperature, typically only a few degrees above absolute zero. These sensors interact with an energetic...
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H1 was a particle detector operated at the HERA (Hadron Elektron Ring Anlage) collider at the German national laboratory DESY in Hamburg. The first studies...
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ring-imaging Cherenkov, or RICH, detector is a device for identifying the type of an electrically charged subatomic particle of known momentum, that traverses...
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Cherenkov detector (pronunciation: /tʃɛrɛnˈkɔv/; Russian: Черенко́в) is a type particle detector designed to detect and identify particles by the Cherenkov...
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purpose particle detector at the Cornell Electron Storage Ring (CESR), and the name of the collaboration of physicists who operated the detector. The name...
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ZEUS was a particle detector at the HERA (Hadron Elektron Ring Anlage) particle accelerator at the German national laboratory DESY in Hamburg. It began...
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ATLAS experiment (redirect from Atlas detector)
ATLAS is the largest general-purpose particle detector experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), a particle accelerator at CERN (the European Organization...
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Semiconductor detectors find broad application for radiation protection, gamma and X-ray spectrometry, and as particle detectors. In semiconductor detectors, ionizing...
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neutrino detector is a physics apparatus which is designed to study neutrinos. Because neutrinos only weakly interact with other particles of matter...
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particle physics, a calorimeter is a type of detector that measures the energy of particles. Particles enter the calorimeter and initiate a particle shower...
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A transition radiation detector (TRD) is a particle detector using the γ {\displaystyle \gamma } -dependent threshold of transition radiation in a stratified...
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Cosmic ray (redirect from Cosmic-ray detector)
possible since the launch of the first satellites in the late 1950s. Particle detectors similar to those used in nuclear and high-energy physics are used...
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The MicroMegas detector (Micro-Mesh Gaseous Structure) is a gaseous particle detector and an advancement of the wire chamber. Invented in 1996 by Georges...
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intensify single particles or photons by the multiplication of electrons via secondary emission. Because a microchannel plate detector has many separate...
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motion of the particles. The main advantages over other radiation detectors are the detailed information available on individual particles, the persistence...
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Explorer 4 (section Charged Particle Detector)
this source, which is in the public domain. "Experiment: Charged Particle Detector". NASA. 28 October 2021. Retrieved 1 November 2021. This article incorporates...
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time-of-flight (TOF) detector is a particle detector which can discriminate between a lighter and a heavier elementary particle of same momentum using...
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Time projection chamber (category Particle detectors)
In physics, a time projection chamber (TPC) is a type of particle detector that uses a combination of electric fields and magnetic fields together with...
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Scintillation counter (category Particle detectors)
detection of gamma waves and zinc sulfide (ZnS) is widely used as a detector of alpha particles. Zinc sulfide is the material Rutherford used to perform his...
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Geiger counter (redirect from Radiac detector)
type of dosimeter. It detects ionizing radiation such as alpha particles, beta particles, and gamma rays using the ionization effect produced in a Geiger–Müller...
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Scintillator (redirect from Scintillation detector)
resolution of the detector (the efficiency is the ratio of detected particles to the total number of particles impinging upon the detector; the energy resolution...
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Spark chamber (redirect from Spark-chamber detector)
A spark chamber is a particle detector: a device used in particle physics for detecting electrically charged particles. They were most widely used as...
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Cloud chamber (category Particle detectors)
A cloud chamber, also known as a Wilson chamber, is a particle detector used for visualizing the passage of ionizing radiation. A cloud chamber consists...
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low-energy charged particles and a plasma-wave detector to study waves generated by the particles; a high-energy particle detector; and a detector of cosmic and...
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Gaseous ionization detectors are radiation detection instruments used in particle physics to detect the presence of ionizing particles, and in radiation...
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Wire chamber (category Particle detectors)
Métiers in Paris Bubble chamber Gaseous ionization detector Micropattern gaseous detector Particle detector Wilson chamber F. Sauli (1977), - Principles of...
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Neutron detection (redirect from Neutron detector)
measure the number and energies of neutrons striking the detector. Atomic and subatomic particles are detected by the signature they produce through interaction...
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Particle. Antiparticle Brownian motion Corpuscularianism Fluid parcel Matter Mechanics Particle counter Particle detector Particle physics Particle physics...
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in the same direction, forming a narrow "jet" of particles. Jets are measured in particle detectors and studied in order to determine the properties of...
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