They did it, they finally did it!
Context: I did my diploma thesis work at that lab, and shared the office with those guys. This is a result almost 10 years in the making.
Congrats!
Context: I did my diploma thesis work at that lab, and shared the office with those guys. This is a result almost 10 years in the making.
Congrats!
EDIT: The AMS was built and used in a lot of experiments before that. Among other things done with that instrument was measuring the neutron flux of the nuclear blast at various locations in Hiroshima, by determining the isotopic composition of the copper on building facade elements. Neutron capture produces some radioactive as well as "unnatural" stable isotopes and by determining their ratio, one can determine the neutron flux and energies.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/6012967_Neutron-ind...
It saddens me, that the accelerator they (and I for that matter) used for their research, has been decommissioned as of last year and is being dismantled right now :( – I could start a major rant about it, that would touch the subjects of funding, some people's personal pride and good science vs. fashionable science.
Recessions will also hit even harder - when the next grant cycle hits in the winter/fall, a lot of good teams are going to get screwed. I really hate the inconsistency and the waxing and waning - fwiw, there were times my team just grabbed grant money and spun wheels on old research, so it's not just that the money dries up easily, I don't think there's good accountability when the money is flowing either.
As someone with inside knowledge, can you review my reasoning that it fits, and it probably was?
No idea. I left that particular lab a few months after I graduated which was 8 years ago.