AEgIS transforms smartphone sensors into an unprecedented resolution antimatter camera

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Apr 3, 2025/ Off Comments / in Announcement / by

The collaboration AEḡIS (Antimatter Experiment: Gravity Interferometry and Spectroscopy) has developed Ophanim (Optical Photon and Antimatter Imager), a detector consisting of 60 optical CMOS sensors for a total of 3850 megapixels, obtained from modified mobile camera sensors, to achieve the highest ever resolution in detecting matter-antimatter annihilation.

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