Particle detectors, as a technique, encompass the ensemble of methods and instrumentation used to register, localize, and characterize ionizing particles through their interactions with matter. These techniques exploit processes such as ionization, scintillation, Cherenkov radiation, and semiconductor charge collection to convert particle passage into measurable electrical or optical signals. Detector techniques include tracking (e.g., gaseous wire chambers, silicon strip and pixel detectors), calorimetry (sampling and homogeneous calorimeters for energy measurement), and time-of-flight methods for velocity determination, often integrated in complex, layered systems enabling precise reconstruction of particle trajectories, momenta, identities, and interaction vertices in nuclear, particle, and astroparticle physics experiments.
A team of physicists from the Institute of Modern Physics (IMP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, together with collaborators, has identified the dominant physical mechanism responsible for energy release in the nuclear ...
General Physics
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Ciaran O'Hare scribbles symbols using colored markers across his whiteboard like he's trying to solve a crime—or perhaps planning one. He bounces around the edges of the board, slowly filling it with sharp angles and curling ...
General Physics
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Recently, a research team from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences successfully grew a high-entropy garnet-structured oxide crystal and achieved enhanced laser performance at the 2.8 ...
Optics & Photonics
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Silicon semiconductors are widely used as particle detectors; however, their long-term operation is constrained by performance degradation in high-radiation environments. Researchers at University of Tsukuba have demonstrated ...
General Physics
Feb 2, 2026
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Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have developed a novel artificial intelligence (AI)-based method to dramatically tame the flood of data generated by particle detectors at ...
General Physics
Feb 2, 2026
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In beehives on the CERN site, a buzzing team of bees collaborates to build hexagon after hexagon of honeycomb—a shape that allows the most honey for a given amount of beeswax to be stored. Working nearby, a team of similarly ...
General Physics
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Researchers have reported new experimental results addressing the origin of rare proton-rich isotopes heavier than iron, called p-nuclei. Led by Artemis Tsantiri, then-graduate student at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams ...
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A research team from Osaka Metropolitan University proposed using a current-biased kinetic inductance detector with submicron 400 megapixels to image hot spots induced by a localized external stimulus over a 15 × 15 mm2 ...
Condensed Matter
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When it comes to understanding the universe, what we know is only a sliver of the whole picture.
General Physics
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Dark matter is an elusive type of matter that does not emit, absorb or reflect light, interacting very weakly with ordinary matter. These characteristics make it impossible to detect using conventional technologies used by ...
