Avalanche Movie UMD (VIDEO)

University of Maryland

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This short animation illustrates a new method, developed by physicists at the University of Maryland, to detect concealed radioactive material by using an infrared laser beam to induce an electron avalanche breakdown near the material.

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R. Schwartz/H. Milchberg/U. of Maryland

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