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Not a stupid suggestion at all. Temperature really does matter for detectors like the PicoMuon detector, especially because the silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) inside produce thermal noise (“dark counts”) that rises…
Response originally posted by Andrew Tgomas on muondetector groups.io mailing list 26/5/2026: The picoMuon will behave oddly and even stop working if it gets too hot. This usually manifests as…
A Yagi works by a different mechanism from a dish or horn, but the same underlying principle still applies: For any antenna, gain and effective aperture are linked by: where:…
The commonly quoted lambda/4 criterion is not really a limit on the flare angle itself; it is a limit on the resulting path-length or surface-position error caused by a construction…
On Monday, May 25, 2026 at 1:09:30 AM UTC-7 Andrew Thornett wrote: Can a horn be made larger simply by adding an extension to end of same flare angle, or does…
Answer by Jason Burnfield: On Tue, May 26, 2026 at 1:33 AM Andrew Thornett wrote: Can I ask you for your back of envelope dB calculation on the trace from my…
In ezRA’s ezCon, the plotted values are usually displayed in the raw linear units from the processed data files. If you want to express them in decibels (dB), the conversion…
Yes, that can work, and it’s a fairly common trick for long conduit runs. The usual method is: For a 50 m conduit, suction is often more effective than trying…
For a VLF loop antenna (typically covering a few kHz up to perhaps 30–300 kHz), a balanced amplifier should ideally have: Several approaches work well: Instrumentation Amplifiers These are often…
An RF choke is an inductor designed to present a high impedance to radio-frequency currents while allowing DC or low-frequency currents to pass. The best design depends on the frequency…
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