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Lead-Tungstate Crystals

ALICE ’s photon spectrometer contains 3,584 lead - tungstate watch glass , a material as transparent as ordinary silica glass but with nearly four times the tightness . When a high - energy molecule passes through one of these crystals it will scintillate , allowing the vitality of electrons , positrons and photon to be measured through the 17,920 catching channels .

ALICE Magnet

Technicians turn on cabling inside the ALICE magnet .

The ALICE experiment at the Large Hadron Collider

The ALICE experiment at the Large Hadron Collider

a photo of the Large Hadron Collider

A photo of the Large Hadron Collider�s ALICE detector.

Atomic structure, large collider, CERN concept.

A pixellated image of a purple glowing cloud in space

Engineer stand inside the KATRIN neutrino experiment at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany.

A simulation of turbulence between stars that resembles a psychedelic rainbow marbled pattern

A subatomic particle illustration.

When the universe was very young, almost all of the antimatter disappeared. And physicists don�t know why.

higgs boson trippy illustration

The inside of a cylindrical antineutrino detector to detect rare fundamental particles.

IceCube Neutrino Observatory

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An image comparing the relative sizes of our solar system�s known dwarf planets, including the newly discovered 2017 OF201

an illustration showing a large disk of material around a star

a person holds a GLP-1 injector

A man with light skin and dark hair and beard leans back in a wooden boat, rowing with oars into the sea

an MRI scan of a brain

A photograph of two of Colossal�s genetically engineered wolves as pups.