Published January 2013
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Journal article
Towards gamma ray lens?
Creators
Description
As gamma rays have the highest frequencies, they were supposed not to be deviated by matter, but a German team has just noticed such a deviation by using a silicon prism. The article recalls the works which leaded to the development of lens for X ray deviation by refraction and briefly presents the results recently obtained by the Laue-Langevin Institute by using a silicon prism. Applications could concern medicine or astronomy
Additional details
Additional titles
- Original title (French)
- Vers des lentilles a rayons gamma?
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Recherche (Paris)
- Journal Issue
- no.471
- Journal Page Range
- p. 70-71
- ISSN
- 0029-5671
- CODEN
- RCCHBV
INIS
- Country of Publication
- France
- Country of Input or Organization
- France
- INIS RN
- 44067925
- Subject category
- S46: INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; S79: ASTROPHYSICS, COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY;
- Descriptors DEI
- DIFFRACTION; FREQUENCY DEPENDENCE; GAMMA ASTRONOMY; GAMMA RADIATION; GERMAN FR ORGANIZATIONS; LENSES; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; PRISMS; REFRACTION; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SILICON; X RADIATION
- Descriptors DEC
- ASTRONOMY; COHERENT SCATTERING; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; ELEMENTS; IONIZING RADIATIONS; MEDICINE; NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; RADIATIONS; SCATTERING; SEMIMETALS