Cherenkov light tagged posts

Map of the various preparation, integration and installation sites at the time of this writing.

KM3NeT – a European collaboration pioneering the deployment of kilometre cubed arrays of neutrino detectors off the Mediterranean coast – has reported in detail on the scientific aims, technology and costs of its proposal in the Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics. Neutrinos are ideal, stable, sub-atomic particles that can travel long distances without being disturbed by matter or magnetic fields in their path. Neutrino-emitting sources such as the remnants of Supernova explosions provide important clues to the evolution of our universe and could also help in expanding our knowledge of atomic physics. However, there is a catch.

To detect neutrinos from the cosmos you need a massiv...

This is one of the highest-energy neutrino events from a survey of the northern sky superimposed on a view of the IceCube Lab at the South Pole. Credit: IceCube Collaboration

Researchers using the IceCube Neutrino Observatory have sorted through the billions of subatomic particles that zip through its frozen cubic-kilometer-sized detector each year to gather powerful new evidence in support of 2013 observations confirming the existence of cosmic neutrinos.

It heralds a new form of astronomy using neutrinos, the nearly massless high-energy particles generated in nature’s accelerators: black holes, massive exploding stars and the energetic cores of galaxies...