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High-Resolution Spectroscopy with LaBr3

Posted on January 21, 2025January 21, 2025 by maxfomitchev

Cerium-doped lanthanum bromide - LaBr3(Ce) - scintillators offer better resolution and greater stopping power compared to conventional thallium-doped sodium iodine - NaI(Tl) - scintillators. A typical lanthanum bromide scintillator achieves a 2.5% FWHM @ 662 keV resolution compared to a ... Read More

Radiological Study of Ancient Egyptian Stone Vases

Posted on January 15, 2025January 15, 2025 by maxfomitchev

The astonishing precision of ancient Egyptian stone vases motivated me to put forth a nuclear machining hypothesis, which I decided to test by measuring gamma spectra of two stone vases from Matt Beall's collection using high-precision germanium spectroscopy. For this ... Read More

Nuclear Machining Hypothesis

Posted on January 14, 2025January 14, 2025 by maxfomitchev

Marveling at the precision of ancient Egyptian stone artifacts (be that granite sarcophagi or stone vases), I realized that we are trying to explain how these objects could have been made using our contemporary technology. If we are to believe ... Read More

Astonishing Precision of Predynastic Egyptian Stone Vessels: A Metrological Study

Posted on January 3, 2025January 14, 2025 by maxfomitchev

Background Adam Young and Ben van Kerkwyk made interesting claims that certain ancient Egyptian stone vases are astonishingly precise. This motivated me to conduct an independent metrological study of similar artifacts, including: 22 purportedly predynastic Egyptian stone vases from Matt ... Read More

Continuing on Quine’s Paradox

Posted on September 25, 2024September 25, 2024 by maxfomitchev

Previously I have shown that Quine's paradox disappears once we take time into account. Computations and logical inferences neither happen instantaneously nor at the same time. For all practical purposes, when we engage in the application of math or logic, ... Read More

Introduction to Neutron Detection

Posted on September 21, 2024September 21, 2024 by maxfomitchev

3He proportional neutron counters (helium-3 gas filled tubes) are currently the most sensitive type of neutron detectors. These detectors owe their high sensitivity to thermal neutrons to the exceptionally high probability of thermal neutron capture by helium-3 atoms (technically speaking, ... Read More

Alpha Spectrometry with MCA-PRO

Posted on September 16, 2024September 23, 2024 by maxfomitchev

I have setup an alpha spectroscopy test system using an Ortec Soloist alpha spectrometer (brochure) and an MCA-PRO as follows (Fig. 1): I have installed an Ortec Soloist into a BNC Portanium AP-3 portable NIM crate to provide the +/-12 ... Read More

Making Titanium Deuteride Powder

Posted on July 24, 2024December 28, 2024 by maxfomitchev

The most straightforward way to make titanium deuteride powder is to heat titanium sponge to ~350-450°C in D2 atmosphere. Once this temperature is reached titanium will react with deuterium gas rapidly through an exothermic reaction Ti + D2 = TiD2. ... Read More

Critical Review of Bin-Juine Huang et al. Paper

Posted on May 29, 2024May 30, 2024 by maxfomitchev

Published in Nature Scientific Reports, Bin-Juine Huang et. al paper entitled "Water can trigger nuclear reaction to produce energy and isotope gases" has drawn a lot of attention. I have been asked many times to comment on it. So, hereby ... Read More

Thermal Shocking of Deuterium-Loaded Titanium Sponge

Posted on April 1, 2024 by maxfomitchev

Introduction Back in the day when the Cold Fusion was still 'hot' Menlove and Prelas reported curious observations of neutron emission associated with the loading of titanium metal with deuterium gas at cryogenic temperature. Specifically, Menlove reported 'reproducible' neutron emission ... Read More

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