The BEam COoler and LAser spectroscopy (BECOLA) facility at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) allows high-precision measurements of nuclear charge distributions. Credit: Kei Minamisono, FRIB.
Researchers have discovered that superconducting nanowire photon detectors can also be used as highly accurate particle detectors, and they have found the optimal nanowire size for high detection ...