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Elementary-particle detectors, 3D printed

  • Particle physics
  • Research
  • Physics
  • Particle Physics (IPA)
  • D-PHYS
A SuperCube that's unsealed and illuminated with UV light to show the PS volume within each voxel and the fibres extending through the entire detector

An international collaboration headed by researchers in the Department of Physics has shown that additive manufacturing offers a realistic way to build large-scale plastic scintillator detectors for particle physics experiments.

by Gaia Donati
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