Ever-Elusive Neutrinos Spotted Bouncing Off Nuclei for the First Time
A new technology for detecting neutrinos represents a “monumental” advance for science
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Tau.Neutrino said:
Ever-Elusive Neutrinos Spotted Bouncing Off Nuclei for the First TimeA new technology for detecting neutrinos represents a “monumental” advance for science
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That was an interesting read.
Tau.Neutrino said:
Ever-Elusive Neutrinos Spotted Bouncing Off Nuclei for the First TimeA new technology for detecting neutrinos represents a “monumental” advance for science
more…
“A high-energy neutrino typically picks out individual protons and neutrons with which to interact.”
Yep. That’s how many neutrino detectors work. (SNO and K2K for example).
“Just as a long, slow wave would pick up the whole patch of debris at once, a low-energy neutrino sees the entire atomic nucleus as one “coherent” whole. This dramatically improves the odds of an interaction.”
I had not heard that. That puts a different slant on things because neutrinos of different energies come from different sources. Normally, low energy events are more common but, because they lack energy, are much harder to detect. Here’s a plot of number verses energy.
Are they looking for low energy solar neutrinos (energy 300 keV) or cosmological neutrinos (energy less by a factor of between 10^9 less)? 0.300 milli-electron volts is not a hefty jolt.
