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| Description | HE Seminar Speaker: Mark Vagins Title: Keeping Gd-Loaded Water Crystal Clear...Indefinitely! Host: Svoboda Room: 416 Abstract: Loading a water Cherenkov detector with a water soluble gadolinium compound makes possible the detection of thermal neutrons, dramatically improving such an enhanced detector's sensitivity to anti-neutrinos fluxes from both nuclear reactors and supernova explosions. But how can the Gd-loaded water be continuously repurified, maintaining its excellent optical properties, without also removing the dissolved gadolinium? A new technology - the molecular band-pass filter - has recently been developed and is currently being industrialized. The zen and the art of Gd-loaded water - including some of the more entertaining bumps encountered along the way to a viable system - will be discussed by the inventor of this technology. |
| Date | Tue, December 4, 2012 |
| Time | 8:00am-9:00am PST |
| Duration | 1 hour |
| Access | Public |
| Created by | High-Energy Seminars |
| Updated | Wed, October 24, 2012 7:38am PDT |
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