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 <[email protected]> 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 > the muons with higher accuracy. > > National Instruments should be interested. > > Bob Cook > > *From:* Jones Beene <[email protected]> > *Sent:* Sunday, October 18, 2015 7:31 AM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* RE: [Vo]:Muon Detection app and Holmlid seminar > > > > > *From:* Blaze Spinnaker > > > > http://news.wisc.edu/23166 > > > > Ø Very cool of MFMP to do this... Maybe they can try replicating it > [muon detector for mobile phone] ? > > > > > > 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 > > > > > > >
