The Gargamelle collaboration at the European laboratory CERN began operating its bubble chamber in the early 1970s, shooting neutrinos through 12,000 liters of Freon, a heavy liquid. Cameras took ...

Stephen Reucroft is Emeritus Matthews Distinguished University Professor of Physics at Northeastern University. He received his PhD in particle physics from Liverpool University. The first 20 years of ...

In a room at a German university a physicist went through his daily routine. He walked down a line of bubble-chamber photo scanners. He leafed through the piles of particle-interaction photos the ...

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