Sentences with phrase «photomultiplier tubes»

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

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.

So says Stuart Freedman, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's spokesperson for the KamLAND neutrino experiment, whose 1879 glass photomultiplier tubes emerged from the earthquake unscathed.

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.

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.

These bits include sockets for photomultiplier tubes from the radiation detectors, and coaxial cables used for signals and timing purposes.

Photomultiplier tubes within the detector, shown above, detect light produced in interactions possibly caused by dark matter particles.

The wispy particles can not be observed directly, however, so the 39 - meter - diameter, 41 - meter - high observation tank is filled with water and lined with photomultiplier tubes that can catch a distinctive glow, known as Cerenkov radiation, produced when neutrinos smash into atomic particles in the water.

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

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.

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

The Shot: Pan took this digital image with an Olympus FluoView FV1000 confocal microscope using a 20x objective and a photomultiplier tube.

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.

TOKYO — A single cracked photomultiplier tube apparently triggered the accident on 12 November that has closed Japan's Super-Kamiokande neutrino detector for at least a year.