Field of 250 Scintillation Detectors (IMAGE)

University of Utah

Field of 250 Scintillation Detectors

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Some 250 scintillation detectors sit in a field in Delta, Utah, while awaiting installation as part of the Telescope Array, a $17 million cosmic ray observatory under construction in the desert of western Utah. The observatory will include 564 scintillation detectors placed in a grid pattern over an 18-mile-by-22-mile area, as well as three buildings containing mirrors known as fluorescence detectors.

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Robert Cady, University of Utah.

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