Accidental Breakthrough As Supercooled Wires Detect Near-Light-Speed Protons
Researchers have discovered that superconducting nanowire photon detectors (SNSPDs), originally designed for detecting ...
From photons to protons: Team makes breakthrough in high-energy particle detection
Particle detectors play a crucial role in our understanding of the fundamental building blocks of the universe. They allow ...
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Proton Decay Experiment On The Brink Of Extinction
They look for special flashes of light that would answer one of the most fundamental questions in physics and bring them fame, glory, and probably the Nobel Prize. They are waiting for a proton to ...
Homing in on ∆g: Study nearly nixes negative gluon spin
Researchers have been working for decades to understand the architecture of the subatomic world. One of the knottier ...
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Penn Medicine plans fourth proton therapy center as part of 'complicated' $300M project
expand The cyclotron, which accelerates protons used in cancer treatment to two-thirds the speed of light, at the proton therapy center at Virtua Voorhees in South Jersey. John George ...
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From photons to protons: Argonne team makes breakthrough in high-energy particle detection
Researchers at Argonne have discovered that superconducting nanowire photon detectors can also be used as highly accurate ...