As a result, even low-energy cosmic rays can reach the surface, turning the Moon into a handy space-based
particle detector. When cosmic rays strike, they interact with the powdery surface of the Moon, called the regolith, to produce gamma-ray emission.
The inline
particle detector is able to detect scratches, holes or colour defects on the surface of parts, along with identifying particles on the surface using dark field illumination.
During the internship, Abdulaziz worked on Cern's large
particle detector, the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS), located across the border in France.
Shaikha, on the other hand, worked on the Large Hadron Collider ATLAS detector, the largest volume
particle detector ever constructed, which aims to discover new particles and find answers to several unanswered questions in the field of physics.
In 2014, he won Fermilab's annual Physics Slam with his presentation using claymation to show how different particles interact inside a liquid-argon
particle detector, depicting them as multicolored monsters bumping into one another and creating electrons for the detector's sensors to pick up.
Nathan's creation was - inspired by a LEGO version of ATLAS - the
particle detector at CERN - made from more than 9,500 bricks.
The loophole that is left proposes that a
particle detector's settings may "conspire" with events in the shared causal past of the detectors themselves to determine which properties of the particle to measure-a scenario that, however far-fetched, implies that a physicist running the experiment does not have complete free will in choosing each detector's setting.
At a seminar held at CERN, the ATLAS experiment - one of the seven
particle detector experiments at the LHC - presented its preliminary results observing a new particle in the mass region of around 125-126 GeV.