News tagged with neutron detector
Goddard Visualization Team Previews Lunar Impact
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 08, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- At 7:30 a.m. EDT on October 9, a two-ton rocket body will slam into a crater near the moon's south pole. By studying the resulting plume of gas and dust, scientists hope this grand experiment ...
Mechanical and nuclear engineers receive award for top-100 technology product of 2009
Sep 17, 2009 |
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A neutron detector created at Kansas State University has been named one of the top 100 technologies of the year.
Dawn Finishes Mars Phase
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 27, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- With Mars disappearing in its metaphorical rearview mirror, NASA's Dawn spacecraft's next stop is the asteroid belt and the giant asteroid Vesta. Dawn got as close as 549 kilometers (341 miles) ...
R&D 100 Award for new NIST/UMD neutron detector
Jul 10, 2008 |
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A new ultrasensitive, high bandwidth neutron detector developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Maryland (UMD) will receive one of this year's "R&D 100 Awards," ...
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New detector can 'see' single neutrons over broad range
Mar 10, 2008 |
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Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Maryland have developed a new optical method that can detect individual neutrons and record them over a range ...
New detector will aid dark matter search
Dec 10, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Several research projects are underway to try to detect particles that may make up the mysterious “dark matter” believed to dominate the universe’s mass. But the existing detectors have a ...
Protons Pair Up With Neutrons
May 29, 2008 |
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Research performed at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility has found that protons are about 20 times more likely to pair up with neutrons than with other protons in ...
Listening to dark matter
Oct 16, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of researchers in Canada have made a bold stride in the struggle to detect dark matter. The PICASSO collaboration has documented the discovery of a significant difference between the ...
Silicon Detector Validated, Moves Forward
Sep 14, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Two of the three detector design concepts for the proposed next linear collider have been validated by the International Detector Advisory Group, and their conclusions endorsed by the International ...
Spallation Neutron Source first of its kind to reach megawatt power (w/ Podcast)
Sep 28, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The Department of Energy's Spallation Neutron Source (SNS), already the world's most powerful facility for pulsed neutron scattering science, is now the first pulsed spallation neutron source ...
What light from yonder neutron breaks?
Dec 20, 2006 |
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Researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology and four universities have made the first experimental observation of rare particles of light emitted during the radioactive decay of the ...
Carbon Atmosphere Discovered on Neutron Star
Nov 04, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Evidence for a thin veil of carbon has been found on the neutron star in the Cassiopeia A supernova remnant. This discovery, made with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, resolves a ten-year ...
New experiment could reveal make-up of the Universe
Aug 06, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the University of Liverpool are constructing highly sensitive detectors as part of an international project to understand the elements that make up the universe.
Neutron scatter camera provides a new-and-improved way to look at radiation
Nov 21, 2007 |
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In an effort to find an answer to the problem of identifying smuggled special nuclear material (SNM), researchers at Sandia National Laboratories in California say a neutron scatter camera they are developing ...
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