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  Casting a net for neutrinos Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2016-02-18 13:33 -0600
    Re: Casting a net for neutrinos jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2016-02-18 19:56 +0000

#554327 — Casting a net for neutrinos

Casting a net for neutrinos
> http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/casting-a-net-for-neutrinos


> The KM3NeT experiment will catch the elusive particles using the
> Mediterranean Sea.
>
> Like ordinary telescopes, KM3NeT operates in darkness—but there the
> resemblance ends. The Km3 Neutrino Telescope (where km3 means a cubic
> kilometer) is a suite of detectors that sits at the pitch-black
> bottom of the Mediterranean Sea, 3.5 kilometers below the waves and
> strong currents of the surface.
>
> KM3NeT needs this absolute night to see the faint amount of light
> from ghostly neutrinos striking water molecules. Neutrinos pass
> through most material as though it weren’t there, which is why
> detectors need to be so big to spot them—more volume means more
> chances to see a neutrino interact. When completed, KM3NeT will be
> the largest neutrino detector in the world, made of about 1.3
> trillion gallons of seawater.

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Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> wrote:

Why did you copy this material?


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