Marcus Wilson • Nov 28, 2019 •
Around a million billion pass through you each second, almost all originating from our sun, but few of them are likely to interact with you enroute. I was reading in a physics magazine earlier in the week about the nature of neutrinos. These are extremely numerous elementary particles, but only interact very weakly with anything. A typical neutrino will travel … Read More
Aimee Whitcroft • Sep 23, 2011 •
* Ahem * Well, not quite. (Note: FTL = Faster Than Light) The first image, taken in 2007, of a neutrino interaction. The neutrino, coming from the left of the figure following an interaction, produces several particles identified by their tracks in the detecting 'brick'. Credit: INFN (Italian National Institute of Nuclear Physics) … Read More
Aimee Whitcroft • Jun 07, 2011 •
As you may or may not be aware, I have something of a physics Jones. Super Kamiokande (SuperK) - one of the oh-so-awesome neutrino detectors out there I’ve found the subject interesting ever since school, although I’ll freely admit that my contact therewith has been somewhat intermittent 🙂 Recently, however, and for a slew of … Read More