Detectors Archives – Page 8 of 50

The CELESTA micro satellite, carrying a space version of the radiation-monitoring system RadMon.

Satellite premieres in CERN irradiation facility

CELESTA’s main goal is to enable a space version of an existing CERN technology called RadMon, which was developed to monitor radiation levels in the LHC.

Beam tests bring ProtoDUNE to life

The world’s largest liquid-argon neutrino detector has recorded its first particle tracks in tests at CERN.

J-PET’s plastic revolution

A PET detector based on plastic scintillators offers whole-body imaging in addition to precision tests of fundamental symmetries.

Europe calls for advanced detector and imaging ideas

The European Union (EU) has committed €17 million to help bring a total of 170 breakthrough detection and imaging ideas to market. Led by CERN and funded by the EU’s Horizon 2020 programme, the A...

Thin silicon sharpens STAR imaging

A new technology has enabled the STAR collaboration at Brookhaven National Laboratory’s Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider (RHIC) to greatly expand its ability to reconstruct short-lived charm hadron d...

Defeating the background in the search for dark matter

A global effort is under way to carry out a complete search for high-mass dark-matter particles using an experiment called DarkSide-20k.

First human 3D X-ray in colour

New-Zealand company MARS Bioimaging Ltd has used technology developed at CERN to perform the first colour 3D X-ray of a human body, offering more accurate medical diagnoses.

Higgs centre opens for business

A new facility called the Higgs Centre for Innovation opened at the Royal Observatory in Edinburgh on 25 May as part of the UK government’s efforts to boost productivity and innovation. The centre,...

ISOLDE mints chromium for structure studies

CERN’s radioactive ion-beam facility ISOLDE has stamped a new coin in its impressive collection. Long considered the domain of high-energy, in-flight rare-isotope facilities, chromium has now been p...