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a device that detects some physical quantity and responds usually with a transmitted signal
a motion detector to thwart burglaries
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Its detectors must be cold, below minus 360° Fahrenheit, or 55 Kelvin, or the telescope would be blinded by its own light.
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Ars Technica, 13 Mar. 2025
Instead, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is set to get a brand new detector named MATHUSLA —an acronym for MAssive Timing Hodoscope for Ultra-Stable neutraL pArticles.
—Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 10 Apr. 2025
There’s light generated from thermal noise, where the fact that the telescope and its instruments are not extremely cold means that additional signals (again, that don’t correspond to real objects) get registered in the detector.
—Big Think, 9 Apr. 2025
The detector was developed with Tokyo Metropolitan University, Tohoku University, Tohoku Institute of Technology, and Osaka University.
—Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 8 Apr. 2025
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Ars Technica, 13 Mar. 2025
Instead, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is set to get a brand new detector named MATHUSLA —an acronym for MAssive Timing Hodoscope for Ultra-Stable neutraL pArticles.
—Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 10 Apr. 2025
There’s light generated from thermal noise, where the fact that the telescope and its instruments are not extremely cold means that additional signals (again, that don’t correspond to real objects) get registered in the detector.
—Big Think, 9 Apr. 2025
The detector was developed with Tokyo Metropolitan University, Tohoku University, Tohoku Institute of Technology, and Osaka University.
—Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 8 Apr. 2025
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“Detector.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/detector. Accessed 29 Apr. 2025.
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