Sentences with phrase «of photomultiplier»

Soon we got back into our vehicles and headed toward the neutrino telescope, a contraption made of 11 strings of photomultiplier tubes, each with a large buoy at the top and a counterweight at the bottom.

Just submerge long strings of photomultiplier tubes into the water and watch for the Cherenkov light left behind by neutrino - generated muons.

Hundreds of photomultiplier tubes watch for the flashes of Cherenkov light at the bottom of Lake Baikal.

The detector material is surrounded by arrays of photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) to capture the light from potential WIMP interactions.

Not exact matches

The project, dubbed IceCube, will sink 4,800 photomultipliers — sensors that detect light — into a billion tons of ice, reaching one mile (2.4 kilometers) below the Antarctic surface.

All of that, in turn, is surrounded by 1,879 photomultiplier tubes, which pick up flashes of light produced as antineutrinos collide with protons in the liquid - filled balloon.

India received photomultiplier tubes and Israel took possession of «streak» cameras, high - speed cameras that nuclear weapons testers use to capture images of explosions.

This is an end - on view of the vacuum chamber, showing ion pump, which maintains the high vacuum, to the left, and the photomultiplier tube and light collection lenses to the right.

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.

When a low - energy neutrino or antineutrino from a supernova collides with a water molecule in the tank, the resulting light signal is recorded by about 100 of 13,000 photomultipliers, ultrasensitive light - detecting devices that turn a tiny flash of light into a larger recordable burst of electricity.

Besides the advantage of needing far fewer photomultiplier tubes to detect high - energy neutrinos, Domogatsky pointed out that only a detector in the Northern Hemisphere could see neutrinos from the center of our galaxy.

«This is the first large - scale implementation at RHIC using next - generation silicon photomultipliers for the detection of scintillator light emitted by plastic scintillators, which create light when charged particles pass through them,» Dunlop said.

Krivitsky notes that rod - cell efficiency is comparable to the quantum efficiencies of state - of - the - art human - made single - photon detectors such as photomultipliers (40 per cent) and avalanche photodiodes (50 per cent); remarkably, rod cells occupy an area of only 5 by 50 micrometers and contain their own power supply.

Introduction and principles of confocal microscopy — lasers, objectives, scanning system, non-coherent light sources, electronic light detectors: photomultipliers, interference filters

Ultraviolet radiation is detected by photographic plates and by means of the photoelectric effect in photomultiplier tubes.