A Studentworking (IMAGE)

University of Wisconsin-Madison

A Studentworking

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Colin Adams, a UW-Madison physics undergraduate, makes an adjustment to a novel prototype camera that will be used to image the fleeting signatures of gamma rays crashing into molecules of air in the Earth's atmosphere, creating a shower of diagnostic secondary particles.

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Savannah Guthrie

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