2020-03-30

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The Thought Emporium

It may seem strange, but everything you've ever eaten contained a tiny amount of antimatter. In this video we explore how it's produced, what happens to it, and how we can detect it. We build a gamma ray spectrometer and use it to detect the antimatter in common materials.

Gamma spectacular: https://www.gammaspectacular.com/blue/?tracking=5e4c4c2211ad2

Calibration sheet: https://github.com/FOULAB/photomultipliercalibration/blob/master/Thorium-linearity-check%20(1).xlsx

PRA: https://www.gammaspectacular.com/marek/pra/index.html

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