Not exact matches
They sound like futuristic weapons, but
electron guns are actually workhorse tools
for research and industry: They emit streams of
electrons for electron microscopes, semiconductor patterning equipment and particle accelerators, to name a few important uses.
It will scour the cosmos
for protons,
electrons and gamma rays, which could reveal smoking -
gun signals of dark matter.
«This is unambiguous smoking -
gun evidence to confirm theoretical predictions
for the conduction of
electrons in these materials,» said Purdue University doctoral student Yang Xu, lead author of a paper appearing this week in the journal Nature Physics.
The unique
electron gun that Filippetto and his team are using is a part of Berkeley Lab's APEX (Advanced Photo - injector EXperiment), which has served as a prototype system
for LCLS - II, a next - generation X-ray laser project underway at SLAC National Acceleratory Laboratory in Menlo Park, Calif..