The large-area neutron detector, also known as LAND, is the name of a detector of neutrons installed at GSI (Institute for Heavy Ion Research) in Arheilgen...
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Neutron detection is the effective detection of neutrons entering a well-positioned detector. There are two key aspects to effective neutron detection:...
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The Modular Neutron Array (MoNA) is a large-area, high-efficiency neutron detector that is used in basic research of rare isotopes at Michigan State University's...
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Neutron activation analysis (NAA) is a nuclear process used for determining the concentrations of elements in many materials. NAA allows discrete sampling...
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The Accelerator Neutrino Neutron Interaction Experiment (ANNIE) is a proposed water Cherenkov detector experiment designed to examine the nature of neutrino...
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S2CID 204877955. Carson, M.J.; et al. (2004). "Neutron background in large-scale xenon detectors for dark matter searches". Astroparticle Physics....
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Neutron imaging is the process of making an image with neutrons. The resulting image is based on the neutron attenuation properties of the imaged object...
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Phelix (Petawatt High Energy Laser for heavy Ion eXperiments). A Large Area Neutron Detector (LAND). A FRagment Separator (FRS) – The GSI Fragment Separator...
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also suited to neutron detection. At present, however, they are much more expensive and more difficult to manufacture. Germanium detectors are mostly used...
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Demining (redirect from Mine detector)
nearly as much energy, so detectors do not need high energy resolution. Also, nitrogen has a large cross section for thermal neutrons. The Canadian Army has...
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Strain Mapping Through Time-of-Flight Neutron Transmission Diffraction with a Microchannel Plate Neutron Counting Detector". Strain. 48 (4): 296–305. doi:10...
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investigators) obtained with unshielded scintillation neutron detectors show a decrease in the neutron flux during thunderstorms. Recent research appears...
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Geiger counter (category Particle detectors)
that reduces neutron energies prior to capture. When a capture occurs in the fill gas, the energy released is registered in the detector. While "Geiger...
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LIGO (redirect from Large Interferometer Gravitational Observatory)
gravitational ripples from a collision of two neutron stars, recorded on 25 April 2019, by the LIGO Livingston detector. Unlike GW170817, this event did not result...
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A neutron star is the collapsed core of a massive supergiant star. It results from the supernova explosion of a massive star—combined with gravitational...
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Gamma spectroscopy (redirect from Gamma ray detector)
a spectral feature overlapping the regions of lower energy. Using larger detector volumes reduces this effect. More sophisticated methods of reducing...
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SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (redirect from Stanford Large Detector)
II detector. The bulk of the data was collected by the SLAC Large Detector, which came online in 1991. Although largely overshadowed by the Large Electron–Positron...
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Scintillation counter (category Particle detectors)
used in neutron detectors. The quantum efficiency of a gamma-ray detector (per unit volume) depends upon the density of electrons in the detector, and certain...
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Ultra-high-energy cosmic ray (section Neutron stars)
with air shower detector array and large area muon detectors at Ooty in southern India. High Resolution Fly's Eye Cosmic Ray Detector (HiRes) MARIACHI...
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Scintillator (redirect from Scintillation detector)
and boron have large neutron cross-sections, glass detectors are particularly well suited to the detection of thermal (slow) neutrons. Lithium is more...
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from spinning neutron stars in data from gravitational-wave detectors, from large radio telescopes, and from a gamma-ray telescope. Neutron stars are detected...
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Gravitational wave (redirect from Gravity wave detector)
gravitational waves from rotating neutron star instabilities or small black hole mergers. There are currently two detectors focused on the higher end of the...
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detector. In a more complicated apparatus, a goniometer can also be used for fine adjustment of the sample and the detector positions. When an area detector...
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Virgo interferometer (section Initial Virgo detector)
sensitivity of a gravitational wave detector is the "horizon distance", defined as the distance at which a binary neutron star with masses 1.4 M☉–1.4 M☉ (where...
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LOFT (redirect from Large Observatory for X-ray Timing)
selected. The Large Observatory for X-ray Timing mission comprises two instruments. Large Area Detector (LAD), a 10 m2 collimated X-ray detector Wide Field...
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Powder diffraction (category Neutron-related techniques)
Powder diffraction is a scientific technique using X-ray, neutron, or electron diffraction on powder or microcrystalline samples for structural characterization...
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Ionizing radiation (redirect from Very high radiation area)
Pions can also be produced in large amounts in particle accelerators. Alpha particles consist of two protons and two neutrons bound together into a particle...
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GW170817 (category Neutron stars)
expected of the inspiral of two neutron stars. Analysis of the slight variation in arrival time of the GW at the three detector locations (two LIGO and one...
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resulting in a free neutron which is then detected from gamma radiation after chlorine-capture. Other detectors have consisted of large volumes of chlorine...
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such as white dwarfs, neutron stars or black holes. Wider binaries, which have lower orbital frequencies, are a source for detectors like LISA. Closer binaries...
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