Detector at Daya Bay (IMAGE)

University of California - Berkeley

Detector at Daya Bay

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The inside of a cylindrical antineutrino detector before being filled with clear liquid scintillator, which reveals antineutrino interactions by the very faint flashes of light they emit. Sensitive photomultiplier tubes line the detector walls, ready to amplify and record the telltale flashes

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Roy Kaltschmidt, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

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