Hunting the Neutrino-less Double Decay: Students May Not Win the Nobel, But It's an Internship to Remember

Monday, August 2, 2010 - 16:28 in Astronomy & Space

During the first summer Abdel Bachri and his physics students at Southern Arkansas University spent at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory they accomplished something that would've been impossible back home: they built a portable cosmic ray detector, with the help of advanced equipment and expertise unavailable at their university. Then they brought it back to Arkansas to allow other students to use it to learn about radiation. "It's my understanding it`s the only detector of its type in the state of Arkansas," Bachri says.

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