A new cold neutron detector has been developed at the NIST Center for Neutron Research (NCNR) for the CANDoR (Chromatic Analysis Neutron Diffractometer or Reflectometer) project.
Hubble will have four more years if its scheduled refurbishment by astronauts goes well this August, but the other warhorse of the effort, the Spitzer, has only a year to go before it runs out of the cryogenics that keep its infrared detectors cold and sensitive.
A vacuum tank houses a cold volume with the detector inside.
We present a thermal architecture for BLISS that includes a thermal intercept stage actively cooled to a temperature in between the 1.7 K cold tip and the detector stage at 50 mK.
We can also get into the other anti-vaccination quackery that lights up my bullshit detector, like "cold weather causes the flu," "influenza is not a serious disease," and "antibiotics can treat the flu if I get it".
Position-sensitive detectors for cold and ultra-cold neutrons (UCN) are in use in fundamental research.
As a result the NICMOS detectors and cold optics have successfully been re-cooled to operationally effective temperatures and the science program has begun.
The Cryogenic Dark Matter Search CDMSS) experiment employs ultra-cold solid-state detectors to search for rare events resulting from WIMP-nucleus scattering.
Bautista, D. M. et al. The menthol receptor TRPM8 is the principal detector of environmental cold.
We describe the design, fabrication, and performance of an energy analyzing detector package for cold neutron spectrometers at the NIST Center for Neutron Research (NCNR).
