Joint venture at the nanoscale – when superconductivity material science meets nuclear physics

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(Funded by the U.S. Department of Energy)

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory have made and tested a superconducting nanowire device applicable to high-speed photon counting for nuclear physics experiments that were previously thought impossible. The device operates at temperatures near absolute zero in magnetic fields 40 times stronger than previous such devices and can detect low-energy photons and other fundamental particles.