Birth Of `Atometry' — Particle Physics Applied To Saving Human Lives

摘要

Atometer, the first non-invasive stoichiometric explosive detector system is described here. We define atometry as stoichiometry by means of elementary particles. Atometry compares with the currently used `explosive detection systems' (EDS) like color photography with Black & White. The technique retrieves images of concealed objects and it also deciphers their stoichiometry i.e. their empirical chemical formulas, CaNbOc, where a, b, and c are the atomic proportions of carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen, with a 97.5% statistical probability. Atometric analysis is performed through steel and other barriers by a combined action of fast neutrons, rays and particles. Atometry has many potential medical and industrial applications, yet unexplored.