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| Hooper to publish popular book with Harper Collins | ||
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Dan Hooper, a theoretical astrophysicist at Fermilab, has attempted to make modern physics accessible in his soon-to-be released popular science treatment of Dark Cosmos - In Search of Our Universe's Missing Mass and Energy. "I owe my career in physics to such popular books," said Hooper, who first became interested in physics after reading a popular book about string theory in college. "I wanted to give something back and maybe inspire others."
To be released on November 1 by Harper Collins Publishers, Hooper's book strives to illustrate the big questions of modern physics. The book begins at the largest scales: the universe as a whole and the evidence for the existence of dark matter and energy. It continues to a description of what scientists know - the Standard Model - and outlines theories that may resolve unanswered questions: the Higgs, string theory and Supersymmetry. "There is some explanation of methods of observation or experiments, but what I love are the concepts, so that is the focus," said Hooper.
As an undergraduate, Hooper was unsure of his career direction until he took a modern physics course. Classtime only piqued his curiosity, so a professor loaned him Superstrings by Paul Davies, the first of many popular science books he has read and continues to read. "I still read these books - no longer for information, but for inspiration. It's easy to get lost in the math that is most of what I do, but these books remind me that the universe is an amazing and awe-inspiring place."
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CERN Courier, September 7, 2006: Ray Davis: indefatigable neutrino pioneer Peter Rosen looks back at the man who brought his deft chemical touch to the study of neutrinos, and created one of the iconic experiments of the 20th century. Raymond Davis Jr, discoverer and grand pioneer of
His vehicle was a nuclear reaction suggested by Bruno Pontecorvo in 1946: a neutrino captured by a specific isotope of chlorine produces an electron and a radioactive isotope of argon. Sources of chlorine were plentiful and cheap, and argon, a noble gas, could easily be extracted from a chlorine solution. Davis counted the atoms of the argon isotope by observing the decay back to chlorine. Over the years, he tested and refined the method so that it became totally reliable as a procedure for measuring even a tiny number of argon atoms produced in Pontecorvo's chlorine reaction.
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OSL represents a recent advancement in passive radiation dosimetry. During processing, the aluminum oxide sensing elements are illuminated with an array of LEDs, causing them to luminesce in proportion to the amount of ionizing radiation received. OSL dosimetry has a number of advantages over TLDs, including the ability to re-read sensing elements at times when results are questionable. If you are required to wear a radiation dosimeter, the proper usage rules remain the same:
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