Neutrino Astrophysics Experiments Beneath the Sea and Ice

Neutrino astronomy beyond the Sun was first imagined in the late 1950s. A neutrino detector at the bottom of Lake Baikal, the deployment of detectors in the Mediterranean Sea, and the construction of a kilometer-scale neutrino telescope at the South Pole exemplify current efforts to realize this dre...

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Published in:Science
Main Author: Halzen, Francis
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 2007
Subjects:
Multidisciplinary
South pole
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1136504
https://syndication.highwire.org/content/doi/10.1126/science.1136504
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Summary:Neutrino astronomy beyond the Sun was first imagined in the late 1950s. A neutrino detector at the bottom of Lake Baikal, the deployment of detectors in the Mediterranean Sea, and the construction of a kilometer-scale neutrino telescope at the South Pole exemplify current efforts to realize this dream.

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