Channel: The Thought Emporium

Category: Science & Technology

Tags: positrongamma spectroscopyeducationphotomultiplierspectrumradiationphysicssciencegamma rayparticle physicstutorialcosmic rayantimatternucleargammavacuum tube

Description: It may seem strange, but everything you've ever eaten contained a tiny amount of antimatter. In this video we explore how it's produced, what happens to it, and how we can detect it. We build a gamma ray spectrometer and use it to detect the antimatter in common materials. Gamma spectacular: gammaspectacular.com/blue/?tracking=5e4c4c2211ad2 Calibration sheet: github.com/FOULAB/photomultipliercalibration/blob/master/Thorium-linearity-check%20(1).xlsx PRA: gammaspectacular.com/marek/pra/index.html Previous video: youtu.be/C7TwBUxxIC0 _________________________________________________________________ Support the show and future projects: Patreon: patreon.com/thethoughtemporium Ko-Fi: ko-fi.com/thoughtemporium Become a member: youtube.com/channel/UCV5vCi3jPJdURZwAOO_FNfQ/join Store: teespring.com/stores/the-thought-emporium _________________________________________________________________ My Social Media Pages: Instagram: instagram.com/thethoughtemporium Facebook: facebook.com/thethoughtemporium Twitter: twitter.com/emporiumthought Website: thethoughtemporium.com _________________________________________________________________ Special thanks to my amazing patrons and channel members! A_Demigod Adam Silver Afrotechmods AKrumm81 Alexander Eisele Alexander Marunowski Alexandre Guhur Ambrose Andre Andrei-Gabriel Andrei-Gabriel Andrej Karpathy andrew james morris Andrew Jewell Andy Anita Fowler Applied Science Austin Morris Ben Reay Bennet Huch besenyeim BinarySplit bluejay BPS.space Brad Walker Brady OBrien Brand Caso Chris the Mad Sciencer Comrade Spamuel Cronenberg Jerry Dakramar Danny Chan danruff5 Dave Yeagly David Choitz Dean Pierce Dmitry Sadovnikov Drew DeVault dstensnes Dustin Parciasepe Elliot Turner emptymachine Erwan Martin ethan lutz Eugene Pakhomov Ezekiel Dohmen Filipsi Gal Tibi Harry Pottash Jack Brown Jack Paschke James Jaroslav Henner Jase Smith Jeremy Jim Mussared John John De Witt Jon Adams Jonas Abreu Jonathan Dashe Joshua Pedrick Justa Noman Justin Hendryx Kevin Kevin Forsythe kn0tsin Krys Kamieniecki Lambda GPU Workstations Lee Goymer Leon Leon Schutte Leonid Usov Leslie Rohde Liam Scaife Louis Cashin Luc Ritchie Marco Reps Martin Haugsand Martin Kemka Matthew Broerman Matthew Reece-Ford Maxwell Meinhard Absalon Micah Michael Chatzidakis Michael Gregg Michael Santiago Mike Miller Monsyne Dragon Neil Svedberg Nicholas Fletcher Nova Olaf 33 Owen Ashurst Owen Burns Patreon Patrick Sweetman Paul Emmerich Paul Klopping Paul Richmond Paul Toensing Pietro Saccardi Piper Elinor Rae McIntosh Rajan Chari Rauni Rikki Guy Robert Boll robert braun Robert Miller Robert S. Rolf Reich Pedersen Ruben Sam Pinches Sean Coates Sebastiaan Schlappi Simon Convey Simon Hallam SkaveRat tain Tajallah Sims TheOneTrueJames TheQuickestBrownFox Tiffany Bennett Toli Tom Bullock Tómas Árni Jónasson Valery Belayev Vedran Bajic Virgil Ilian Walter Jones xj9 Yannik Neuhaus Áva Eriksdóttir Channel members: stevenson primacio Prithvi quantum Chris Kosik Aziz Başkan Eric Reiter shreyas ubale BasiC7786 Jacob Stewart Emi Li Incognito AI abhijith raghu Faris Faux Matt Ettler Chris Modjeska andré bernard mennicken Jose Ayala Shwe Yin Aye Radio Astronomy (MSAS) Ajit A Guillermo Alum flantc HeLikesItWhenYouSpreadThatConciseThesisOnTheTable Jonathan Nagel István Kiss Jorm Skagh txyzinfo trevor skjerpen adamklam1 Herbling Anthony M Kush Agarwal