From photons to protons: Team makes breakthrough in high-energy particle detection
Particle detectors play a crucial role in our understanding of the fundamental building blocks of the universe. They allow ...
To Unlock Limitless Energy, Scientists Needed a Secret Ingredient—And They May Have Just Found It
The new material could be key to finally building a successful fusion reactor.
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From photons to protons: Argonne team makes breakthrough in high-energy particle detection
Researchers at Argonne have discovered that superconducting nanowire photon detectors can also be used as highly accurate ...
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What Is Carbon? Life's Most Crucial Element, Explained
Where would carbon-based life be without carbon? There are 118 known chemical elements, but carbon is the fourth most ...
Frontiers26d
Editorial: Proton boron nuclear fusion: from energy production to medical applications
It produces no neutrons in its main reaction ... The laser-plasma interaction produces MeV protons generated by the Coulomb explosion (CE) of the clusters, interacting with the surrounding boron to ...
Nature10d
Disintegration of Uranium by Neutrons: a New Type of Nuclear Reaction
ON bombarding uranium with neutrons, Fermi and collaborators 1 found that at least four radioactive substances were produced, to two of which atomic numbers larger than 92 were ascribed.
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Action of Slow Neutrons on Rare Earth Elements
we carried out a detailed investigation on this subject and also on the absorption of slow neutrons in rare earth elements. The latter measurements were carried out chiefly to ascertain the ...
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What Are Semiconductors, and What Are They Made Of?
In contrast, P-type semiconductors use a dopant element from group III on the periodic table (such as boron, indium, or gallium). These elements have only three electrons in their valence shell ...
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σ-Electrons rather than π-Electrons Inducing Sensitive Nonlinear Optical Responses in Planar and Quasi-Planar Boron Clusters
The Supporting Information is available free of charge at https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jpca.4c07488.