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11Mario Schenberg (Gravitational Wave Detector) — The Mario Schenberg (Gravitational Wave Detector, Antenna, or Brazilian Graviton Project[1]) is a spherical, resonant mass, gravitational wave detector run by the Physics Institute of the University of Sao Paulo. Similar to the Dutch run… …
12Cat's-whisker detector — Galena cat s whisker detector Precision cat s whisker d …
13Neutrino detector — The Sudbury Neutrino Observatory, a 12 meter sphere filled with heavy water surrounded by light detectors located 2000 meters below the ground in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. A neutrino detector is a physics apparatus designed to study neutrinos.… …
14Microchannel plate detector — from the Daresbury Recoil Separator A micro channel plate (MCP) is a planar component used for detection of particles (electrons or ions) and impinging radiation (ultraviolet radiation and X rays). It is closely related to an electron multiplier …
15Envelope detector — An envelope detector is an electronic circuit that takes a high frequency signal as input, and provides an output which is the envelope of the original signal. The capacitor in the circuit stores up charge on the rising edge, and releases it… …
16Electrolytic detector — The electrolytic detector, or the bare point electrolytic detector as it was also called, was a type of wet demodulator used in early radio receivers. This form of detector was in extensive use, and was very sensitive and reliable.HistoryWhile… …
17Naxos radar detector — The FuG 350 Naxos radar warning receiver was a World War II German countermeasure to SHF band centimetric wavelength radar produced by a cavity magnetron. It replaced Metox, which was incapable of detecting centimetric radar. Telefunken built a… …
18Dugway Proving Ground — testing area encompasses a vast area of the western Utah desert. Dugway Proving Ground (DPG) is a US Army facility located approximately 85 miles (140 km) southwest of Salt Lake City, Utah in southern Tooele County and just north of… …
19High Resolution Fly's Eye Cosmic Ray Detector — The High Resolution Fly s Eye or HiRes detector was an ultra high energy cosmic ray observatory that operated in the western Utah desert from May 1997 until April 2006. HiRes utilized the atmospheric fluorescence technique that was pioneered by… …
20metal detector — UK / US noun [countable] Word forms metal detector : singular metal detector plural metal detectors a) a piece of equipment that is used for finding metal objects buried in the ground b) a piece of equipment used especially at airports for… …
