Ever since physicist Ernest Rutherford discovered the atomic nucleus in 1911, studying its structure and behavior has remained a challenging task. More than a century later, even with today’s ...

A team of researchers has developed a neutrino detector made of germanium crystals. When they installed the detector at the Leibstadt reactor in Switzerland, it caught 400 antineutrinos in 119 days.

Fine tuning an experimental setup improved a detector's sensitivity to neutrinos and perhaps eventually dark matter—two difficult-to-measure forms of matter which hold great importance for ...

Researchers at IBM say they have developed a method that enables the fast, efficient manufacture of photodetectors that are compatible with CMOS production. Michael Hatcher reports. Optical ...

Lithium-drifted germanium detectors for high-resolution gamma-ray spectroscopy reduce the need for wet chemistry in neutron-activation analysis. Problems in fields as diverse as geochemistry and the ...

LIVERMORE, Calif.-— Scientists from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in collaboration with engineers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have developed a mobile, handheld mechanically ...

Scientists have shown they can shield a sensitive, scalable 44-kilogram germanium detector array from background radioactivity. This accomplishment is critical to developing and proposing a much ...

Programmable photonics devices, which use light to perform complex computations, are emerging as a key area in integrated ...

ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mirion Technologies (NYSE: MIR), a leading provider of advanced radiation safety solutions, today announced its contribution to the Psyche mission, which launched from the ...

Physicists thought they had built the detector to rule them all. A mile underground in a former South Dakota gold mine, the Large Underground Xenon detector was the latest, greatest attempt to find ...