A doctoral student and his adviser designed a tabletop particle detector they hope to make accessible to budding young engineering physicists.
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Scientists are using a plastic robot and hair-thin pieces of metal to ready a magnet that will hunt for new physics.
The forthcoming Mu2e experiment at Fermilab will kidnap muons and trap them in aluminum atoms. But what exactly happens when you shoot a muon at an aluminum foil? While Mu2e is under construction, its scientists are already getting some valuable answers from a smaller accomplice: AlCap.