Posts Tagged ‘photomultiplier’

  • Phantom Filter
    Phantom Filter

    Buried 1000 meters under the city of Hida, Japan, and packed with 11,146 photomultiplier tubes, the Super Kamiokande detector is set up to capture the presence of what may be the universe’s most bashful particle. The ghost-like neutrino has no electrical charge and a near zero mass. That means it doesn’t like to play [...]


    Wednesday, February 4th, 2009


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