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    1960s determined that smoke detectors respond to fires much faster than heat detectors. The first single-station smoke detector was invented in 1970 and...
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  • promising advantage of the FAST corner detector is its computational efficiency. Referring to its name, it is indeed faster than many other well-known feature...
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  • operator or control system. A flame detector can often respond faster and more accurately than a smoke or heat detector due to the mechanisms it uses to...
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  • Thumbnail for 2011 OPERA faster-than-light neutrino anomaly
    produced at CERN in Geneva and recorded at the OPERA detector at Gran Sasso, Italy, had traveled faster than light. The neutrinos were calculated to have...
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  • A Cherenkov detector (pronunciation: /tʃɛrɛnˈkɔv/; Russian: Черенко́в) is a particle detector using the speed threshold for light production, the speed-dependent...
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    neutrino detectors must be very large to detect a significant number of neutrinos. Neutrino detectors are often built underground, to isolate the detector from...
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  • Faster-than-light (superluminal or supercausal) travel and communication are the conjectural propagation of matter or information faster than the speed...
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    charged particles damage the detector within nanometers along the track in such a way that the track can be etched many times faster than the undamaged material...
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    column. The higher the column temperature, the faster the sample moves through the column. However, the faster a sample moves through the column, the less...
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    called a detector. A variety of different detector devices, such as the coherer, electrolytic detector, magnetic detector and the crystal detector, were...
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    detector. There are two key aspects to effective neutron detection: hardware and software. Detection hardware refers to the kind of neutron detector used...
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    A heat detector is a fire alarm device designed to respond when the convected thermal energy of a fire increases the temperature of a heat sensitive element...
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    Common Pipistrelle Common Pipistrelle call heard on a heterodyne bat detector - 68 KB. This is a typical echolocation call with "feeding buzzes" when it...
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    The MicroMegas detector (Micro-Mesh Gaseous Structure) is a gaseous particle detector and an advancement of the wire chamber. Invented in 1996 by Georges...
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    Gaseous ionization detectors are radiation detection instruments used in particle physics to detect the presence of ionizing particles, and in radiation...
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  • Semiconductor detectors find broad application for radiation protection, gamma and X-ray spectrometry, and as particle detectors. In semiconductor detectors, ionizing...
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  • Oriented FAST and rotated BRIEF (ORB) is a fast robust local feature detector, first presented by Ethan Rublee et al. in 2011, that can be used in computer...
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  • better noise immunity than the level detector, which is used in interface circuits. Its positive feedback has a faster transition, so it is used in timing...
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    The Canny edge detector is an edge detection operator that uses a multi-stage algorithm to detect a wide range of edges in images. It was developed by...
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    multiplication of electrons via secondary emission. Because a microchannel plate detector has many separate channels, it can provide spatial resolution. A microchannel...
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    energy, a short rise time for fast timing applications (e.g., coincidence measurements), a short decay time to reduce detector dead-time and accommodate high...
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    executables. Also contains DoG and LoG detectors and affine adaptation for all detectors included. FAST detector, C, C++, MATLAB source code and executables...
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    segmented detectors with add-back (see: clover (detector)). The voltage pulses produced for every gamma ray that interacts within the detector volume are...
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    (CMS) experiment is one of two large general-purpose particle physics detectors built on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN in Switzerland and France...
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  • Thumbnail for IceCube Neutrino Observatory
    particle travels through the ice faster than the speed of light in the ice, similar to the bow shock of a boat traveling faster than the waves it crosses. This...
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  • cannot measure the electric field directly as it oscillates much faster than any detector's time resolution. Instead, one measures the intensity of the light...
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  • Thumbnail for Cherenkov radiation
    most advanced type of a detector is the RICH, or ring-imaging Cherenkov detector, developed in the 1980s. In a RICH detector, a cone of Cherenkov light...
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    251333; 6.020139 ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment) is one of nine detector experiments at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. The experiment is designed...
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  • Self Powered Neutron Detector (SPND) is a neutron detector used in nuclear fission reactors. It is a compact device extensively used worldwide for mapping...
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    superconducting nanowire single-photon detector (SNSPD or SSPD) is a type of optical and near-infrared single-photon detector based on a current-biased superconducting...
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