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Categories: Accelerator physics, Particle detectors, Particle physics stubs
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absorber  ALPHA Collaboration  ATHENA experiment
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(physics) material in a nuclear reactor that absorbs radiation WordNet 3.0
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In high energy physics experiments, an absorber is a block of material used to absorb some of the energy of an incident particle in an experiment. Wikipedia
antimatter research project Wikidata
A material that absorbs neutrons in a reactor. Wiktionary
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