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Neutrino and Dark‐Matter Detection at Low Temperature

AUG 01, 1991
The use of low‐temperature techniques to see tiny energies in massive detectors may be opening a ‘low energy’ frontier of particle physics.
Leo Stodolsky

It is with shock, and with new respect for the subtleties of condensed matter physics, that the noninitiate (such as I was) first realizes that at low temperatures a microscopic energy—like that associated with a single atom—can be enough to seriously affect the state of a macroscopic body.

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Leo Stodolsky, Max Planck Institute for Physics, Munich, Germany.

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