From:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/07/260716023610.htm
Scientists built a camera that can track invisible particles in 3D
Date:
July 17, 2026
Source:
ETH Zurich
Summary:
A new particle detector called PLATON could replace millions of tiny detector components with a single block of light-producing material.
Using a light-field camera, highly sensitive photon sensors, and AI, it reconstructs particle paths in fast, detailed 3D.
Simulations suggest it could match or surpass todayrCOs best detectors while being far easier to scale.
The technology may also lead to sharper PET medical scans.
Paper:
<https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-70918-x>
Bye bye CERN?
From:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/07/260716023610.htm
Scientists built a camera that can track invisible particles in 3D
Date:
July 17, 2026
Source:
ETH Zurich
Summary:
A new particle detector called PLATON could replace millions of tiny detector components with a single block of light-producing material.
Using a light-field camera, highly sensitive photon sensors, and AI, it reconstructs particle paths in fast, detailed 3D.
Simulations suggest it could match or surpass todayrCOs best detectors while being far easier to scale.
The technology may also lead to sharper PET medical scans.
Paper:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-70918-x
Bye bye CERN?
joegwinn@comcast.netwrote:
On Fri, 17 Jul 2026 13:06:22 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid>wrote:
From:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/07/260716023610.htm
Scientists built a camera that can track invisible particles in 3D
Date:
July 17, 2026
Source:
ETH Zurich
Summary:
A new particle detector called PLATON could replace millions of tiny detector components with a single block of
light-producing material.
Using a light-field camera, highly sensitive photon sensors, and AI, it reconstructs particle paths in fast, detailed 3D.
Simulations suggest it could match or surpass todayrCOs best detectors while being far easier to scale.
The technology may also lead to sharper PET medical scans.
Paper:
<https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-70918-x>
Bye bye CERN?
Nah. They'll just engulf this, if it works at scale.
A historical parallel is Wakefield Particle Accelerators:
.<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma_acceleration>
Jeroen Belleman <jeroen@nospam.please>wrote:
On 7/17/26 15:06, Jan Panteltje wrote:
From:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/07/260716023610.htm
Scientists built a camera that can track invisible particles in 3D
Date:
July 17, 2026
Source:
ETH Zurich
Summary:
A new particle detector called PLATON could replace millions of tiny detector components with a single block of
light-producing material.
Using a light-field camera, highly sensitive photon sensors, and AI, it reconstructs particle paths in fast, detailed 3D.
Simulations suggest it could match or surpass todayrCOs best detectors while being far easier to scale.
The technology may also lead to sharper PET medical scans.
Paper:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-70918-x
Bye bye CERN?
If this really works as well as they claim, CERN will certainly make
use of it. CERN people have lots of contacts with Swiss academia, so
they're likely already in on it. I note that one person involved is
the son of a former CERN director.
Jeroen Belleman
Jeroen Belleman <jeroen@nospam.please>wrote:
On 7/17/26 15:06, Jan Panteltje wrote:
From:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/07/260716023610.htm
Scientists built a camera that can track invisible particles in 3D
Date:
July 17, 2026
Source:
ETH Zurich
Summary:
A new particle detector called PLATON could replace millions of tiny detector components with a single block of
light-producing material.
Using a light-field camera, highly sensitive photon sensors, and AI, it reconstructs particle paths in fast, detailed 3D.
Simulations suggest it could match or surpass todayrCOs best detectors while being far easier to scale.
The technology may also lead to sharper PET medical scans.
Paper:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-70918-x
Bye bye CERN?
If this really works as well as they claim, CERN will certainly make
use of it. CERN people have lots of contacts with Swiss academia, so
they're likely already in on it. I note that one person involved is
the son of a former CERN director.
Jeroen Belleman
I already want to build one detector like that myself.
If stuff gets available
I have several scintillator crystals laying about.
cameras I have...
Microlens array... no, but wait a minute...
3D?
High resolution cameras on 2 sides of the scintillator crystal?
Probably missing something here.
Jeroen Belleman <jeroen@nospam.please>wrote:
On 7/17/26 17:40, Jan Panteltje wrote:
Jeroen Belleman <jeroen@nospam.please>wrote:
On 7/17/26 15:06, Jan Panteltje wrote:
From:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/07/260716023610.htm
Scientists built a camera that can track invisible particles in 3D
Date:
July 17, 2026
Source:
ETH Zurich
Summary:
A new particle detector called PLATON could replace millions of tiny detector components with a single block of
light-producing material.
Using a light-field camera, highly sensitive photon sensors, and AI, it reconstructs particle paths in fast, detailed
3D.
Simulations suggest it could match or surpass todayrCOs best detectors while being far easier to scale.
The technology may also lead to sharper PET medical scans.
Paper:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-70918-x
Bye bye CERN?
If this really works as well as they claim, CERN will certainly make
use of it. CERN people have lots of contacts with Swiss academia, so
they're likely already in on it. I note that one person involved is
the son of a former CERN director.
Jeroen Belleman
I already want to build one detector like that myself.
If stuff gets available
I have several scintillator crystals laying about.
cameras I have...
Microlens array... no, but wait a minute...
3D?
High resolution cameras on 2 sides of the scintillator crystal?
Probably missing something here.
Yep, sensitivity. Their cameras were arrays of SPADs, not something
you'll find in the shop around the corner.
Jeroen Belleman
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