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APS/Alan Stonebraker
Neutrino stunt double. In the new experiments, a pulse of electrons (red
line) entered a plastic target, producing a cascade of charged particles,
just as a high-energy neutrino would when entering Antarctic ice. Radio
waves from a transmitter (left)...
High-energy particles from space carry hints about the violent
astrophysical events that created them. Now researchers have
demonstrated the feasibility of a method for detecting cosmic neutrinos
when their energies are between 10 and 100 peta-electron-volts—an
energy blind spot for existing detection methods. The technique involves
bouncing radio waves off a cloud of electrical charge created in a
material after the passage of a high-energy neutrino, although the
experiment used an intense pulse of electrons to mimic the cosmic
particle. The method should help astrophysicists better understand the
events that produce the most energetic neutrinos.
“The most important achievement,” says Prohira, “is that we were able to
measure radar echoes off of individual particle cascades. This has never
been done before.” Francis Halzen of the University of Wisconsin,
Madison, d