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  • Thumbnail for Gamma spectroscopy
    segmented detectors with add-back (see: clover (detector)). The voltage pulses produced for every gamma ray that interacts within the detector volume are...
    27 KB (3,329 words) - 18:30, 3 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Compton Gamma Ray Observatory
    telescopes in one spacecraft, covering X-rays and gamma rays, including various specialized sub-instruments and detectors. Following 14 years of effort, the...
    21 KB (2,049 words) - 21:14, 28 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Gamma-ray astronomy
    gamma rays coming from space are absorbed by the Earth's atmosphere, so gamma-ray astronomy could not develop until it was possible to get detectors above...
    28 KB (3,296 words) - 06:41, 30 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for AGATA (gamma-ray detector)
    Advanced GAmma Tracking Array, is a High-Purity Germanium (HPGe) semiconductor detector array for γ-ray spectroscopy that is based on the novel γ-ray tracking...
    10 KB (1,088 words) - 08:33, 16 August 2024
  • Semiconductor detectors find broad application for radiation protection, gamma and X-ray spectrometry, and as particle detectors. In semiconductor detectors, ionizing...
    16 KB (1,923 words) - 05:38, 15 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Gamma ray
    A gamma ray, also known as gamma radiation (symbol γ ), is a penetrating form of electromagnetic radiation arising from the radioactive decay of atomic...
    60 KB (7,399 words) - 19:35, 2 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Gamma-ray burst
    In gamma-ray astronomy, gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are immensely energetic explosions that have been observed in distant galaxies, being the brightest and...
    119 KB (12,984 words) - 21:35, 11 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for X-ray detector
    X-ray detectors are devices used to measure the flux, spatial distribution, spectrum, and/or other properties of X-rays. Detectors can be divided into...
    24 KB (2,857 words) - 08:27, 24 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Scintigraphy
    Scintigraphy (redirect from Gamma scanning)
    are taken internally and the emitted gamma radiation is captured by gamma cameras, which are external detectors that form two-dimensional images in a...
    12 KB (1,239 words) - 16:07, 17 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for X-ray telescope
    galactic nuclei and other phenomena based on their X-ray and gamma-ray emissions. The Lobster-Eye X-ray Satellite was launched on 25 July 2020 by CNSA making...
    26 KB (3,140 words) - 18:38, 22 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
    The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope (FGST, also FGRST), formerly called the Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST), is a space observatory being...
    56 KB (5,615 words) - 18:28, 21 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Robert Hofstadter
    by this crystal. These thallium-activated sodium iodide detectors are widely used for gamma ray detection to this day. Robert Hofstadter coined the term...
    14 KB (1,163 words) - 04:50, 31 July 2024
  • gamma-ray detectors use the Geiger-Mueller counter principle, but have been mostly replaced thallium-doped sodium-iodide (NaI) scintillation detector...
    7 KB (1,158 words) - 00:14, 27 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Lead(II) iodide
    specialized applications, such as the manufacture of solar cells, X-rays and gamma-ray detectors. Its preparation is an entertaining and popular demonstration...
    22 KB (2,109 words) - 14:32, 21 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Cosmic ray
    of cosmic rays, especially at lower energies, has been possible since the launch of the first satellites in the late 1950s. Particle detectors similar to...
    96 KB (10,550 words) - 02:22, 3 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Gamma-ray spectrometer
    The study and analysis of gamma-ray spectra for scientific and technical use is called gamma spectroscopy, and gamma-ray spectrometers are the instruments...
    14 KB (1,756 words) - 15:55, 5 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Very-high-energy gamma ray
    Very-high-energy gamma ray (VHEGR) denotes gamma radiation with photon energies of 100 GeV (gigaelectronvolt) to 100 TeV (teraelectronvolt), i.e., 1011...
    8 KB (791 words) - 10:55, 3 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Gamma camera
    is performed using gamma cameras. Usually one, two or three detectors or heads, are slowly rotated around the patient. A gamma camera consists of one...
    14 KB (1,596 words) - 16:14, 21 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for AFP-675
    in gamma-ray detectors, the suitability of n-type, high-purity germanium gamma-ray detectors for space, the performance of an advanced gamma-ray spectrometer...
    7 KB (653 words) - 19:13, 25 March 2023
  • the unwanted background. Early experimenters in X-ray and gamma-ray astronomy found that their detectors, flown on balloons or sounding rockets, were corrupted...
    7 KB (889 words) - 03:31, 31 July 2024
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