Sorry, too much wine. Cool that MFMP was meeting with Holmlid's co-author
and looking into the ultra dense hydrogen.
I thought the muon detector was cool. Are people doing muon detection as a
part of their replication efforts?
On Sun, Oct 18, 2015 at 5:19 PM, Bob Cook wrote:
> A little lead in front of the lens would tend to reduce the detection for
> gammas but not much for muons. That way the app may be able to identify
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> *Sent:* Sunday, October 18, 2015 7:31 AM
> *To:* vortex-l@eskimo.com
> *Subject:* RE: [Vo]:Muon Detection app and Holmlid seminar
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> Ø Very cool of MFMP to do this... Maybe they can try replicating it
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> Problem is – the “detector” is the iphone camera with the lens covered,
> which will pick up all kinds of high energy radiation. The app analyzes
> the “image” and if enough pixels light up, it gets recorded as an event –
> exactly like a similar app does for detecting gamma radiation. There cannot
> be very much discrimination between the two apps, so all this will tell you
> is that some kind of radiation is coming through the lens cover… OTOH –
> this is good to know…. J
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