The wiki on radiation embrittlement is pretty good reading for any mechanical engineers out there: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutron_embrittlement
The wiki on radiation embrittlement is pretty good reading for any mechanical engineers out there: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutron_embrittlement
Gust@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
This is a big part of why the LHC experiment is so expensive. Turns out that equipment that exists to create high energy collisions (and as a product a lot of spicy radiation) goes brittle or the sensors go dark pretty quickly and need to be replaced a lot. I did sim work on a replacement detector setup for the experiment back in undergrad and the lions share of my simulations were showing how the crystals would perform at various levels of degradation