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CosmicWatch: Handheld device democratizes study of cosmic particles from exploding stars

The handheld particle detector CosmicWatch is roughly the size of a box of animal crackers. Every time a muon passes through ...
Physics World

Tetraquark measurements could shed more light on the strong nuclear force

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Making the invisible visible: Space particles become observable through handheld invention

You can't see, feel, hear, taste or smell them, but tiny particles from space are constantly raining down on us.
University of Delaware

Making the invisible visible

Spencer Axani, assistant professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, is the inventor of CosmicWatch, a portable, ...
IEEE

Long Period Testing and Validation of the Fully Analog Interrogation System for FBG Sensors

Abstract: The proposed manuscript investigates the application of Fiber Bragg Grating (FBG) sensors in safety scenario, by means of a full analog interrogation system. From the optical point of view, ...
ucdavis.edu

Inside the Quest to Understand the Universe

For more than 40 years, physicist John Conway has led research in high-energy particle physics, a field driven by a simple yet profound goal: to understand what the universe is made of and how it ...
IEEE

Commissioning Tests for the Detector Solenoid of COMET Experiment

Abstract: COMET experiment is planned to be conducted at the Hadron facility of J-PARC. This experiment searches for the neutrino-less transition of a muon to an electron in a nuclear field known as “ ...