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Asked by izgrorl1 to Ant on 13 Mar 2012. This question was also asked by harry.
Question: What is a Zeplin?
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Anthony Hollingsworth answered on 13 Mar 2012:
haha ok a zepplin is a massive airship. the germans used to bomb london with them in WW1. the main guy who designed my instrument was a bit of a led zepplin fan so he decided to make a name for our experiment that had this in. So my machine is a big tub of liquid that flashes when radiation hits it, this is a “time projection chamber”, it has lots of sensors so we can tell where it hit, so its “zoned”, and the size of the flash depends on the size of the radiation so its “proportional”. So this guy decided to call the experiment “ZonEd Proportional scintillation in LIquid Noble gases” because our liquid is a type of noble gas. So from this he got the world ZEPLIN for the name, what can i say, he was a bit nuts, clever though! 🙂
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izgrorl1 commented on :
Cheers for the long answer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Matt commented on :
Above all else, a Zeppelin is cool!
Dan commented on :
As another random note, there were 2 worldwide bases for the Zeplin way back when (i think before WWII?), Friedrichshafen Germany (where i’ve been and they have a museum, and modern blimps you can ride for real) and Wichita, Kansas, in the middle of absolutely nowhere in the USA. A bit random, but it was a good way around the other side of the world so they could stop and refuel, etc. Am mostly sure about all this but it’s all based on my memories from the tour!