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Lecturer @Sydney_Uni | previously @NYUAbuDhabi and @UCL | particle physicist | children book author | mom of 3 | Get my book 👉 https://t.co/f2O0CVGU8c
Jan 16 10 tweets 2 min read
Avete sentito parlare della compagnia cinese che produce batterie nucleari? Cosa sono? E cosa possono alimentare? Scopriamolo insieme.
world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Nucle… 🔋1/9🔋 Una compagnia cinese ha recentemente annunciato piani per produrre in massa batterie nucleari di piccole dimensioni, con una durata di circa 50 anni.
Oct 22, 2021 4 tweets 3 min read
Dark matter is out there
Find it is all we care

WIMPs, axions, dark photons...
We are looking for the latter bosons

Kinetic mixing allows the dark
to become Standard and make a “spark”!

A multilayer dielectric haloscope as detector
equipped with a SPAD as light collector.

1/ Image A stack of dielectric layers, in total 46,
enables the dark to standard photon mix

Converted a photon?

The aspherical lens to focus it
The spad to then count the hit

As no significant excess we get
90% C.L. upper limits we set

2/ ImageImage