Could forests be the future of neutrino detection? A physicist has proposed the idea of using forests to detect ultra-high-energy neutrinos, which has generated excitement in the scientific community. Physicist Amy Connolly of the Ohio State University in Columbus describes the concept as a natural solution that has been overlooked. Neutrinos typically require large, sensitive detectors, especially for the rarest, highest-energy neutrinos from space. Building such detectors from scratch is a significant challenge. However, high-energy neutrino physicists have a history of creating innovative detectors in natural environments. For example, the IceCube Neutrino Observatory uses a cubic kilometer of Antarctic ice, and the Cubic Kilometre Neutrino Telescope, KM3NeT, is currently under construction in the Mediterranean Sea. These detectors have the necessary volume to capture rare high-energy neutrinos.
2024-03-06 10:30:00
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