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Star tracker. The STARS real-time star tracking software operates on an image from EBEX 2012, a high-altitude balloon-borne cosmology experiment launched from Antarctica on 2012-12-29. A star tracker is an optical device that measures the positions of stars using photocells or a camera. [1] As the positions of many stars have been measured by ...
The STAR detector (for Solenoidal Tracker at RHIC) is one of the four experiments at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) in Brookhaven National Laboratory, United States. [1] [2] [3] The primary scientific objective of STAR is to study the formation and characteristics of the quark–gluon plasma (QGP), a state of matter believed to ...
Tracking (particle physics) In particle physics, tracking is the process of reconstructing the trajectory (or track) of electrically charged particles in a particle detector known as a tracker. The particles entering such a tracker leave a precise record of their passage through the device, by interaction with suitably constructed components ...
Open Source Physics, or OSP, is a project sponsored by the National Science Foundation and Davidson College, whose mission is to spread the use of open source code libraries that take care of a lot of the heavy lifting for physics: drawing and plotting, differential equation solvers, exporting to animated GIFs and movies, etc., tools, and compiled simulations for physics and other numerical ...
Physlets are small, flexible Java applets that can be used in the teaching of physics and other sciences. In particular: Physlets use simple graphics to convey only the salient features of physical phenomena. Physlet-based exercises can be used as part of almost any curriculum with almost any teaching style. Physlets are created and controlled ...
Single-particle tracking ( SPT) is the observation of the motion of individual particles within a medium. The coordinates time series, which can be either in two dimensions ( x, y) or in three dimensions ( x, y, z ), is referred to as a trajectory. The trajectory is typically analyzed using statistical methods to extract information about the ...
Kerson Huang, known for contributions to statistical physics and quantum field theory alongside C. N. Yang, T. D. Lee, and Steven Weinberg; Roman Jackiw, of the Jackiw-Teitelboim model of 2d gravity; Robert Jaffe, CTP director, known for MIT Bag Model; Xiangdong Ji, recipient of Herman Feshbach Prize in nuclear physics
For detection of non-ionizing particles, see particle counter. In experimental and applied particle physics, nuclear physics, and nuclear engineering, a particle detector, also known as a radiation detector, is a device used to detect, track, and/or identify ionizing particles, such as those produced by nuclear decay, cosmic radiation, or ...