{"id":108,"date":"2017-10-04T19:18:16","date_gmt":"2017-10-04T19:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/160-physics-astronomy\/gammarayspectrometer\/"},"modified":"2024-06-20T16:21:46","modified_gmt":"2024-06-20T16:21:46","slug":"gammarayspectrometer","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/physics-astronomy\/research\/facilities\/gammarayspectrometer\/","title":{"rendered":"Gamma-Ray Spectrometer"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"246\" height=\"308\" src=\"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/physics-astronomy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/573\/2016\/04\/grs.jpg\" alt=\"grs\" class=\"wp-image-73\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/physics-astronomy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/573\/2016\/04\/grs.jpg 246w,  https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/physics-astronomy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/573\/2016\/04\/grs-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 246px) 100vw, 246px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Macalester&#8217;s Gamma-Ray Spectrometer measures the spectrum of gamma rays emitted by unstable isotopes undergoing gamma decay. \u00a0The detector in the Gamma-Ray Spectrometer does not contain any free electrons before the gamma emission of the radioactive unknown. \u00a0The computer program Gamma Analysis then counts the number of photons emitted by the evelope and plots them with respect to the energy of the photons. \u00a0At Mac students can identify unknown elements and isotopes via this process. \u00a0This type of technology bears grand and exciting real-world applications.\u00a0 NASA, for example, also employs Gamma-Ray Spectrometers. \u00a0Recently they were used on the Mars Odyessy Missions to search for evidence of previous volcanic activity and water on Mars.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Macalester&#8217;s Gamma-Ray Spectrometer measures the spectrum of gamma rays emitted by unstable isotopes undergoing gamma decay. \u00a0The detector in the Gamma-Ray Spectrometer does not contain any free electrons before the gamma emission of the radioactive unknown. \u00a0The computer program Gamma Analysis then counts the number of photons emitted by the evelope and plots them with [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":913,"featured_media":0,"parent":104,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-108","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/physics-astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/physics-astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/physics-astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/physics-astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/913"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/physics-astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/physics-astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":879,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/physics-astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/108\/revisions\/879"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/physics-astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/physics-astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}