high purity germanium detector
1Germanium — (pronEng|dʒɚˈmeɪniəm) is a chemical element with the symbol Ge and atomic number 32. It is a lustrous, hard, silver white metalloid in the carbon group, chemically similar to its group neighbors tin and silicon. Germanium has five naturally… …
2High Energy Astronomy Observatory 3 — The last of NASA s three High Energy Astronomy Observatories, HEAO 3 was launched 20 September 1979 on an Atlas Centaur launch vehicle, into a nearly circular, 43.6 degree inclination low Earth orbit with an initial perigee of 486.4 km.The normal …
3Semiconductor detector — A semiconductor detector is a device that uses a semiconductor (usually silicon or germanium) to detect traversing charged particles or the absorption of photons. In the field of particle physics, these detectors are usually known as silicon… …
4Clover (detector) — For other uses, see Clover (disambiguation). A clover detector is a gamma ray detector used in many physics laboratories. It consists of 4 coaxial N type high purity germanium (Ge) crystals each machined to shape and mounted in a common cryostat… …
5Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager — (RHESSI, or more rarely Explorer 81) is the sixth mission in the line of NASA Small Explorer missions (also known as SMEX). Launched on 5 February 2002, its primary mission is to explore the basic physics of particle acceleration and explosive… …
6Partition coefficient — In chemistry and the pharmaceutical sciences, a partition (P) or distribution coefficient (D) is the ratio of concentrations of a compound in the two phases of a mixture of two immiscible solvents at equilibrium.[1] The terms gas/liquid partition …
7Neutron activation analysis — Science with Neutrons Foundations Neutron temperature Flux · Radiation  …
8Gamma spectroscopy — The gamma ray spectrum of natural uranium, showing about a dozen discrete lines superimposed on a smooth continuum, allows the identification the nuclides 226Ra, 214Pb, and 214Bi of the uranium decay chain. Gamma ray spectroscopy is the… …
9Fluorescence X — Spectrométrie de fluorescence X Pour les articles homonymes, voir SFX, FX et XRF. Un spectromètre de fluorescence X Philips PW1606 avec manutention automatiq …
10Spectrometrie de fluorescence X — Spectrométrie de fluorescence X Pour les articles homonymes, voir SFX, FX et XRF. Un spectromètre de fluorescence X Philips PW1606 avec manutention automatiq …
