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Mein Lieblingsbild von der #artemis2-Mission ist ja das hier. (Mond, von hinten beleuchtet)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2explore/55193054741/
Why build cycle paths when you could have dead children instead?
Berlin’s governing coalition has its priorities straight (driving is the highest good!). Such a measure would also solve the waiting lists for nurseries and overcrowded schools; smaller homes would suffice.
Too cynical? Not when it comes to such stupidity.
La Von der Layen ha perdido la cabeza o se cree Rambo y estš a dos cubatas de declararle la guerra a alguien sólo porque le sale del coño. Si EEUU e Israel pueden saltarse la legalidad internacional ¿por qué Europa no va a hacer lo mismo? Nos gobiernan psicópatas.
Ik lees èn hoor dat we een koude winter hebben gehad. Ik heb dat niet zo ervaren. Even gekeken wat mijn warmtepomp ervan vond, die stemt zijn stookgedrag.af op de gemeten buitentemperatuur.
Ik neem een ruime winter, van 1 oktober t/m 31 maart.
24/25: 1563 kWh.
Nu: 1510 kWh
De afgelopen winter was dus iets minder koud dan de winter ervoor, iets, in elk geval op het paadje naast de schuur, waar de temperatuur gemeten wordt. De verdere instellingen van de warmtepomp zijn ge…
Good article here on the latest about the #hantavirus sicknesses on the cruise ship near Cape Verde.
"Those most at risk are likely to be the ship’s other passengers. For now, the plan is for the Hondius to continue to the Canary Islands, Van Kerkhove says, where Spain will conduct a thorough epidemiological investigation and disinfect the ship.
All the researchers involved stress the challenge of investigating an outbreak on a ship in international waters with so many countries involved. “I think the response has been a wonderful global collaborative effort,” Blumberg says. “It shows the value of networks and people speaking to each other.””
https://www.science.org/content/article/cruise-ship-s-hantavirus-outbreak-puts-researchers-uncharted-territory
CAGE: An Internal Source Scanning Cryostat for HPGe Characterization
G. Othman, C. Wiseman, T. H. Burritt, J. A. Detwiler, M. P. Held, R. Henning, T. Mathew, D. Peterson, W. Pettus, G. Song, T. D. Van Wechel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.06289 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.06289 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.06289
arXiv:2602.06289v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The success of current and future-generation neutrinoless double beta decay experiments relies on the ability to eliminate or reduce extraneous backgrounds. In addition to constructing experiments using radiopure materials and handling in underground laboratories, it is necessary to understand and reduce known backgrounds in data analysis. The Large Enriched Germanium Experiment for Neutrinoless double beta Decay is searching for this decay using 76Ge-enriched high-purity germanium detectors submerged in an active liquid argon veto. A significant background in LEGEND is surface events from shallowly-impinging radiation on detector surfaces. In this paper we introduce the Collimated Alphas, Gammas, and Electrons (CAGE) scanning system, an internal-source scanning vacuum cryostat, designed to perform studies of surface events on sensitive surfaces of HPGe in a surface-lab. CAGE features a collimated radionuclide source inside a movable infrared shield that is able to perform precision scans of detector surfaces by utilizing three independent motor stages for source positioning. This allows detailed studies of pulse shapes as a function of source position and incident angle, where defining features can be extracted and exploited for removing surface backgrounds in data analysis in LEGEND. In this paper, we describe CAGE and demonstrate its performance with a commissioning run with 241Am. The commissioning run was completed with the source at normal incidence, and we estimate a beam spot precision of 3.1 mm, which includes positioning uncertainties and the beam-spot size. Using the 59.5 keV gamma population from 241Am, we show that low-energy photon events near the passivated surface feature risetimes that increase with radial distance from the detector center. We suggest a specific metric that can be used to discriminate low-energy gamma backgrounds in LEGEND with similar characteristics.
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CAGE: An Internal Source Scanning Cryostat for HPGe Characterization
G. Othman, C. Wiseman, T. H. Burritt, J. A. Detwiler, M. P. Held, R. Henning, T. Mathew, D. Peterson, W. Pettus, G. Song, T. D. Van Wechel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.06289