Detector Definition and 279 Threads

Hello All, I'm trying to simulate in MCNP the energy response of a PIN diode. To do this, I have modelled a "slab" of silicon in an epoxy case at 2cm away from the source and with the F8 tally set to 25keV bin increments to 1MeV, I do as follows: Set the source energy to 33keV Run the...

F8 tally is pulse height tally use in MCNP. Is it possible to see pulse height vs. time response in MCNP (as we can see on the oscilloscope) of, say, a scintillator detector placed in front of a pulsed X-ray source?

Hello everyone. I am simulating a Cesium-137 source with an energy of 0.662 MeV and an activity of 225 mCi. When I use the "T: tally time bins" card, for example: F24:P 1 E24 20 T24 0 1000 25I 3600 196I 200600 I understand that I am asking the program to give me the average flux in this cell...

The SNO+ Experiment in Canada is still in development, but analysis of early antineutrino detections as published in Physics Review Letters and as referenced in the SNO+ results page are believed to be from appear to be the from Ontario reactors 240Km away.

I want to characterize an electron beam using something like a CMOS-camera or maybe just a Faraday cup. The electron energy is between 1 and 10 keV and the expected total current around 10 microA for 1 keV electrons. Essentially I want to see whether the beam diameter is around 1 micrometer...

Why doesn't the detector effect the result of the double split experiment

See the attached figure. I used 220uF with buzzer and also tried 10uF capacitor but buzzer isn't loud enough. I don't have any 3.3pf capacitor. I used 1.1 pF instead. I also tried changing the resistance of potentiometer but still buzzer isn't sound loud enough.

Hello! If I want to model the time and spatial resolution of an MCP detector, should I use a gaussian or a uniform distribution? I imagine that, for example for the spatial distribution, the uncertainty is given by the size of the pixel on the detector, which makes me think that uniform...

Full problem: I don't normally think about circuits like these in terms of energy (Joules) so I was very much confused. What I did was find where the simplified expressions intercepts with each other to get the voltage. I scanned in my work although this text is a walk through of what I did...

Hello! I found this circuit element below in a drawer marked "IR detectors" (which I must have written on it myself, a long time ago...although I must admit don't remember doing so #OldAge). First of all, I'm trying to figure out what, exactly, it is. My initial assumption was that it looks...

Cool open source Air tag detector here. From, https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/free-android-app-lets-users-detect-apple-airtag-tracking/ https://arxiv.org/pdf/2202.11813.pdf

Recently viewed video about wormholes that required negative energy to create it. Suppose hypothetical aliens have discovered this technology. Spaceship enters in first point and exit at second. To prevent spaceship destruction they might have technology to smooth gravitational waves on exit...

Hi, Can you please help find where I can buy a muon detector, or someone who will build a muon detector for me? Nothing fancy just a detector that flashes and beeps when a muon is detected. I do not have the skill or knowledge to accomplish this task. Any help with this endeavor would be greatly...

I made an experiment in the lab. I took some measurements with the CsI(Tl) detector by placing the cobalt at a distance of 5 cm. I have attached the measurement result. I need to find the count for the peak energies. How can I do it? Any idea?

If I have a source of radioactivity that is concentrated instead of evenly spread out, like a "tablet" source instead of a evenly distributed aerosol/dust on ground for example then is it possible to even estimate the total number of disintegrations (Becquerels per second) by measuring the...

Summary:: Hello I am a writer and presently working on treatment for a science-fiction story. So I am not a scientist, just a neophyte interested in science and wanting to write a fiction that would not be too far-fetched and that would make some sense for everyone, including the scientific...

I have been developing a SPAD based photometer having a 10 ns deadtime, near-zero dark counts, near-zero afterpulsing, and that is temperature independent (within a reasonable range). It works well with photon level pulsed optical signals, (10ns to several microsecond pulse widths at rates up...

Do we have the ability to detect the gamma ray of Planck Length 1? Is there any known phenomenon, natural or man-made, that could emit on Channel 1? How dangerous to man and machine would Channel 1 be / at what density (is that the right term?) would it become dangerous? Would there be any...

Recently when cleaning, I opened the cover of our ionisation smoke detector and as I was touching all around the inside of the smoke detector with my bare hands and most importantly including all the sides of the ionization chamber with the radiation symbol on it which contains the radiation...

In using scintillator or germanium energy sensors, certain radionuclides representing some definite line energies are used to calibrate the sensors. What technique or method is used to measure or determine the energies of these standards.

While watching the MIT online opencourse videos about ionizing radiation physics some questions came to mind. Let me first clarify and reinforce some basics by asking them to you. I understand this might be long, please forgive me. I will appreciate your time. 1) A GM tube consists of a chamber...

Here is a high quality article about it written by Ethan Siegel, with Ph.D. astrophysicist, author, and science communicator, who professes physics and astronomy at various colleges and has won numerous awards for science writing since 2008. So it's not a crackpot source. The Enduring Mystery...

I am designing a zero crossing detector for Arduino using the 4N35 optocoupler. This is just a small part of a large project. I haven't bought the components yet, so do not ask me for readings. Everything is in the planning phase now. My input will be a 6-0-6 transformer (220V to 6V step down)...

So far I have an R928 Hamamatsu pmt from ebay, that I believe will be good since it has UV glass, and the majority of the photons should be in the UV range. I also have an old Brandenburg pmt HV power supply but need a BNC connector to use it. I already have a good rigol oscilloscope. Soon I...

Let r = position of the electron = 6mm - 36.8μm; λ = mean free path traversed. Integrate E(r) = Q/(2πϵLr) between the two shells gives: V = [Q/(2πϵL)]*log(r/(r-λ)) I know that the question is asking for the voltage at which the electron energy will get to 23eV, but i am unsure how to get rid...

1. Add impedance in parallel of capacitor and resistor Z_rc = 1/((-wC/j) + 1/R) = (jR)/(j-wRC) 2. Ohm's law for relationship of i_d, Z_rc, and Vo Vo = i_d * (jR)/(j-wRC) Unsure how to do the rest? Thanks.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269320301040#br0210 I need to give this more thought, but the ballistics section is pretty good, and I think their basic dE/dx argument is sound: If a collision at a ballistic rate transfers about the same kinetic energy to the human body...

My car aircon recirculation button often turns off by itself. I guess this happens when the aircon is cold enough. Problem is. When it turns off and the indicator light disappears, the pollution outside gets into my car and my pm2.5 monitor registers 20x higher. What kind of photon detector...

There is a physics event being organized in my college for which I had planned to make a muon detector. I have the circuit ready which brings 240 volts ac mains source down to 80 volts dc supply. But now, I am facing a serious problem. I have been unable to find a neon glow lamp. Basically, mý...

Hi I'm a student working on my last assignment in physics department. now I'm trying to make a radioactive radiation detector with the principle of ion chamber. i want to add some new mechanism which when a charged particle pass through the chamber, an LED would emit a light. is there any...

Hi, What do you all think of Firefox' breach detector: https://monitor.firefox.com/?utm_source=mozilla.org-privacy-products&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=privacy-products&entrypoint=mozilla.org-privacy-products ?

if you filter completely the relaigh scattering, could a solar panel detect a raman signal?

Hola, I have a question to a Goniometer or more specific of a Bragg-Bretano- measurement, where you need to move your detector in die double angular speed then you move your Röntgen source. Why is it so? In my thoughts, it makes sense to move them in the same speed of the röntgen source and you...

The URL below is from Rensselaer Alumni Magazine. It is about an unexpected observation of an xenon atom decay using the equipment designed for detecting dark matter particle interactions with xenon. https://magazine.rpi.edu/at-rensselaer/dark-matter-detector-observes-rarest-event-ever-recorded

Suppose we have a double slit and we fire a photon through it with no photon detector at either slit. We get a interference pattern. Now we put a photon detector at the left slit. The interference pattern is destroyed, right? In this last setup, the photon can be located at the left slit. So...

Trying to wrap my head around what the double-slit experiment is illustrating, it occurred to me that one could replace a mechanical detector with the human eye. I found that this was tested with what seems an elaborate test setup in 2016, and the result suggests that while an interference...

Hi, I built the attached ratio detector circuit and it works but I can't understand the reason for the connection marked in green. I need an explanation, please. Thanks in advance. GR

The group is led by Andrew Geraci, an associate professor of physics and astronomy in Northwestern’s Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences . It would appear that the sensors employ optically-trapped microspheres or microdiscs, the positions of which can be measured to microns or better as these...

my understanding is that there has never been a double slit experiment with a detector at the slit, where that detector's state was changed as a result of a particle being at that slit. if true, then if such a schema was possible and tried, then there would be no interference, and the reason...

Suppose I had an electromagnet that would instantly go to full power when turned on (impossible) and at one light second away a detector capable of detecting the electromagnet. When I turn the electromagnet on how long does it take for the field to reach the detector?

Take one radioactive element and put a detector all around it so that you can immediately detect whenever it will undergo radioactive decay. Have a clock connected to the detector to note the "exact" instant at which the atom decays. Let's say that after 3min after the clock started counting the...

Hi everyone While learning about quantum mechanics, I became curious about the real-life experimental data. Wikipedia says that entanglement experiments require coincidence counters, because the majority of the signal received by detectors is noise. It further says, that coincidence counters...

My experiment is to place a detector on one of the slits in the dual slit experiment so That it would record or not the passage of the photon, and then reset the detector to its base state, Erasing the result. In such a case, would the interference pattern be destroyed simply because the...

I am interested in evaluating light intensity variation in a digital image. A colleague wants to apply an inverse square law correction to account for distance variation. I am trying to justify that in this case, the inverse square law does not apply. Treating each pixel as a detector, it has...

hi , please can somebody help me about this circuit, is not working i don't get audio signal here is my circuit rename in asc frm txt thanks

Homework Statement An isotropic point source radiates electromagnetic energy, and its output is measured by a thin disc-like detector of radius R. Calculate the power measured by the detector at distance h from the source, assuming that the plane of the disc is orthogonal to the line of sight...

Hi all! I'm a physics enthusiast and I've been reading/watching a lot of stuff about the double slit experiments. I was watching a youtube video about the delayed quantum eraser experiment and it was really interesting and got me thinking. So here's my question. What if the detector is placed...

Homework Statement A novel semiconductor detector crystal requires an average energy of 1.8 eV to create an electron-hole pair, it has a Fano factor of F=0.2. Use this information to calculate the potential resolution for detecting a gamma-ray with an energy of 700 keV. Homework Equations...

Homework Statement A hypertriton (a bound system with a L hyperon together with a deuteron core (proton and neutron) is produced at the origin of the coordinate, (x,y)=(0,0) with a velocity of 0.94c (beta=0.94), flying along the x-axis. The mass of the hypertriton is 2.991 GeV/c2 . It decays...