A team of physicists working in the Large Hadron collider announced last week that they had detected some of the smallest, most weakly interacting particles yet proven to exist.
Neutrinos interact with ordinary matter only in the right conditions. Trillions of particles are moving through your body. Physicists have to build massive detectors in extremely isolated conditions to see the particles.
Neutrino detectors have been buried in ice or submerged in the deepest lake in the world. The recent detection is the first one to come out of a collider.
Jonathan Feng, a physicist at the University of California-Irvine and a co-leader of the collaboration that managed the experiment, said in a press release that before this project, no sign of neutrinos had ever been seen at a particle collider. The breakthrough will help develop a deeper understanding of the elusive particles and their role in the universe.
The particles were detected by a pilot run of an detector called FASER. Dark matter can be found by looking for the unknown particles that are called emigre detectors.
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The FASER pilot detector was made of alternating lead and tungsten plates, each containing a corresponding number of films. The heavy metal in FASER was smashed into by the reactions in the Large Hadron collider.
FASERnu is a planned experiment that will be more proactive and specific than the current pilot. FASERnu is designed to look for weakly coupled elementary particles and dark matter candidates.
The next run of the LHC is expected to record more than 10,000 interactions, thanks to the power of the new detector and its prime location at CERN, according to David Casper, a co-lead of FAS. The highest-energy neutrinos that have ever been produced from a human-made source will be detected.
FASERnu will begin its data collection next year when the collider's third run is over. FASERnu will include data about the types of neutrinos it finds. New details about the identities of the vanishingly small particles will be documented by 2024.
A huge experiment hasighed the tiny Neutrino, a particle that passes right through matter.
