04/08/2010The first shipment of high-tech particle-detector equipment, funded through a multi-institutional $1.2 million National Science Foundation MRI grant, has arrived at Westmont. The 16 large scintillation bar detectors will be used in the study of properties of neutron-rich rare isotopes which do not exist on Earth, but participate in important astrophysical reactions within supernova explosions and on the crust of neutron stars.Westmont Physics Professor Warren Rogers posing with the new equipment to study supernova explosions1 Column Content Background Color White Heading...