For its TOF system ALICE uses detectors called Multigap Resistive Plate Chambers (MRPC).

By allowing researchers to trace this spray of particle tracks back to their source, the high-resolution detectors - called, unsurprisingly, Belle and BaBar - pinpoint the spot at which the decays take place.

At this point, we're really waiting for the team behind the second detector at Fermi to weigh in (these results come from CDF, but Fermi also has a second detector, called Dzero).

This setup gives up the detector called Time Projection Chamber (often written just TPC)

A Tactical Security Support Equipment (TSSE) system consisting of buried seismic detectors and sensors called Multiple Conductor Intrusion Devices enhanced its capability of monitoring intrusions.

At Los Alamos these were recorded by more than 100 detectors, called scintillation counters.

"It is sort of a criminal court procedure, where you have proof by circumstantial evidence," said Dr. Reinhard Stock, a physicist at the University of Frankfurt who is the spokesman for a collaboration centered on a detector called NA49.

The detector, called Kamland - short for Kamioka Liquid-scintillator Anti-Neutrino Detector - was built in 1997 to detect antineutrinos, the antimatter opposites of neutrinos, emitted by Japanese nuclear reactors.

Guido Tonelli, spokesman for a rival detector called C.M.S., said, "We are really starting physics."

The detector consists of hundreds of light detectors called phototubes floating within a pond containing six million gallons of water.