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Don't we use water/xenon for it's combination of density and transparency? I wonder if there are other things we could use to shrink detectors at the expense of
by flukus 8y ago
Don't we use water/xenon for it's combination of density and transparency? I wonder if there are other things we could use to shrink detectors at the expense of missing many wavelengths produced by collisions?
- dTal 8y agoA large detector also has the advantage of being a large target. Even if you managed to make a detector a thousand times smaller while keeping it just as sensitive as our current ones, you'd still detect a thousand times fewer neutrinos.