News tagged with electron detector

Key ingredient: Change in material boosts prospects of ultrafast single-photon detector

By swapping one superconducting material for another, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have found a practical way to boost the efficiency of the world's fastest single-photon ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jun 30, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Neutrino mass: 'Ghost particle' sized up by cosmologists

(PhysOrg.com) -- Cosmologists at UCL (University College London) are a step closer to determining the mass of the elusive neutrino particle, not by using a giant particle detector, but by gazing up into space.

Physics / General Physics

created Jun 22, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (18) | comments 13 | with audio podcast

X-ray telescope to detect dark energy in space

It will be on board in 2012, when a Soyus-2 rocket carries an X-ray telescope into space to decode the nature of the universe's dark energy: an X-ray detector developed by the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics. ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Mar 16, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

The First T2K Neutrino Event Observed At Super-Kamiokande

(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists from the Japanese-led multinational T2K collaboration announced today that they had made the first detection of a neutrino which had travelled all the way under Japan from their ...

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 25, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (19) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Iowa State physicists beginning to see data from the Large Hadron Collider

(PhysOrg.com) -- Three Iowa State University physicists who took winter trips to the Large Hadron Collider for meetings and experimental work are starting to see real data from the planet's biggest science ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 06, 2010 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (8) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

A quicker, cheaper SARS virus detector -- one easily customizable for other targets

Members of a USC-led research team say they've made a big improvement in a new breed of electronic detectors for viruses and other biological materials — one that may be a valuable addition to the battle against ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created May 29, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

K-State's fast laser research and theory building on Einsten's work by timing electrons emissions

Ultrafast laser research at Kansas State University has allowed physicists to build on Nobel Prize-winning work in photo-electronics by none other than Albert Einstein.

Physics / General Physics

created May 21, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Officials break ground for the world's most advanced neutrino experiment

(PhysOrg.com) -- Construction begins this month on a cutting-edge physics laboratory in northern Minnesota, supported by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Congressman James Oberstar of Minnesota ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 01, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (10) | comments 15

Precision measurement of W boson mass portends stricter limits for Higgs particle

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists of the DZero collaboration at the Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory have achieved the world's most precise measurement of the mass of the W boson by a ...

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 11, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (10) | comments 16