Eric-- My experience is that the devil is in the details and the demise of the devil is the job of the instruments and they are not cheap.
I think the MFMP understands that and my hope is that they guess the ones that will get the devil out. That being said I hope that they have two or three coincident gamma counters lined up to detect back to back gammas from possible positron-electron reactions, with a Na-22 source to calibrate the signal they may see. A coil to create a varying ambient magnetic field around the reactor would also be nice to evaluate if there any changes in a reaction associated with the magnetic field. Maybe that is another test. Bob Cook From: Eric Walker Sent: Monday, April 11, 2016 9:12 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Vo]: MFMP GS5.3 - a replication On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 1:35 PM, Bob Higgins <[email protected]> wrote: We are all hoping for a repeat performance of the "signal", the gamma burst output. In GS5.3, the team is much better prepared to monitor the radiations. Time bases for all of the data acquistions have been carefully synchronized. Amptek has generously loaned MFMP an X-123 CdTe x-ray spectrometer capable of about 6keV to 80keV measurement. Mark Jurich has borrowed an x-ray scintillator system from SLAC to monitor. The GM detector has been upgraded to a sensitive 2" pancake detector. I'm looking forward to the conclusions. I'm sure MFMP have done a range of calibrations; possibly something like these? a.. Calibrated the x-ray spectrometer and scintillator against known standards. b.. Verified that the x-ray spectrometer, the x-ray scintillator and GM detector work in coincidence (when there's a signal in one there's a signal in the others). c.. Taken background readings over a period of weeks n order to characterize occasional background events and avoid confusing them for a possible signal. Eric
