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Particle detectors are instruments designed for the detection and measurement of sub-atomic particles such as those emitted by radioactive materials, produced by particle accelerators or observed in cosmic rays. They include electrons, protons,...
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In experimental and applied particle physics, a particle detector, also known as a radiation detector, is a device used to detect, track, and/or identify high-energy particles, such as produced by nuclear decay, cosmic radiation, or reactions in a...


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To touch the cloud of unknowing: particle detectors.
04/03/1993: 846 words, approx. 3 pages
A new particle detector being developed at the Centre for Particle Astrophysics in Berkeley, CA, will hopefully be able to find the weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPS) that theoretically comprise the dark matter of the galaxy. GALAXIES are a puzzle. The amount of...
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Nobels Awarded in Chemistry, Physics; Academy Honors Insights on Chemical Reactions, Invention of Sub-Atomic Particle Detectors
10/15/1992: 849 words, approx. 3 pages
The Nobel Prize in chemistry was won yesterday by Rudolph A. Marcus, a Canadian-born American who helped explain what happens when atoms join to make new molecules. The physics prize, also announced yesterday, went to Georges Charpak, a Frenchman born in Poland, who invented...
 


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