Depending on the circumstances you find yourself in, a Geiger counter can be a tremendously useful tool. With just a click or a chirp, it can tell you if any invisible threats lurk. But a Geiger ...

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An international team of astronomers reports the detection of four new gamma-ray millisecond pulsars using the Murriyang ...

We don’t know why [stoppi71] needs to do gamma spectroscopy. We only know that he has made one, including a high-voltage power supply, a photomultiplier tube, and–what else–an Arduino.

Mössbauer spectroscopy is a versatile technique that can be used to provide information in many areas of science such as Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Metallurgy. It can give very precise ...

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Broser and Kallmann 1 have shown that mono-energetic alpha-particles give pulses of the same height in a scintillation counter, and that the pulse-height is proportional to the energy of the alpha ...

X-ray fluorescence (XRF) is the emission of characteristic "secondary" (or fluorescent) X-rays from a material that has been excited by bombarding with high-energy X-rays or gamma rays. The ...