Scrap metal solves cosmic conundrum

• Autores: Katia Moskvitch
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 2963, 2014, pág. 12
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Moskvitch talks about how high-speed collisions can help people understand the underlying physics of star explosion. To help solve the riddle, Alexander Murphy at the University of Edinburgh UK and his colleagues looked to a novel source of titanium: irradiated parts removed from a particle accelerator. The scrap metal, from the Paul Scherrer Institute in Villigen Switzerland, contained enough titanium-44 for the team to run an experiment. Murphy's team used the scrap metal to produce a beam of titanium-44 in an accelerator at CERN in Switzerland, and sent the beam into a helium-filled gas chamber.