Podcast: The Muon Camera

Particle detectors don't always have to be massive, expensive machines at cutting edge physics laboratories. Undergraduate physics students Kristina Pritchard and Shemaiah Khopang, both at Missouri Southern State University, worked with their faculty advisor David McKee to build a muon detector out of a Sony digital camera. Taking the camera apart. Image: Kristina Pritchard They inserted a piece of magnesium fluoride in front of the camera's image sensor so when a muon passed through, it left b...