Designing and Building a Proton Tracker

Nuclear Physicists Dr Marina Petri (University of York), Dr Marc Labiche (STFC Daresbury Laboratory) and Dr Carl Unsworth (STFC Daresbury Laboratory) explain why we need a detector that can track protons and how such a device is designed and built.

00:00 Introduction
00:17 Exotic Nuclei
01:05 Proton Tracker
02:05 Assembling the Tracker
02:59 Challenges