Sentences with phrase «called photomultipliers»

Every second, more than a thousand billion of them pass through the heart of the SNO detector — 1,000 tonnes of heavy water surrounded by 10,000 electronic eyeballs called photomultipliers.

You can't see it with the naked eye, so to detect this light, we have 178 extremely sensitive one - pixel cameras, called photomultipliers, above and below the liquid - xenon - filled detector.

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The light collected by the lidar telescope is geometrically and spectrally separated (e.g., with optical filters and beam splitters) and detected with photosensitive devices (photomultipliers, abbreviated PMTs) where it is converted to electro - photon counts, the so - called «lidar signals».