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From the article: "Casper said that there have only been about 10 observations of tau neutrinos in all of human history but that he expects his team will be ab
by chasil 5y ago
From the article:
"Casper said that there have only been about 10 observations of tau neutrinos in all of human history but that he expects his team will be able to double or triple that number over the next three years."
- misnome 5y agoTau neutrinos, yes, but electron and muon neutrinos are significantly easier to identify - the problem with tau neutrinos is that when they interact, they produce a tauon, which very, very quickly decays so it's hard to know if it was a tauon decaying to, say, a muon or electron - which look identical to their respective neutrino flavours, or one of those neutrinos to begin with. This is not to say that it's _easy_ to detect the other kinds, you still need a large number of neutrinos and a large volume for detection. The example that always comes up is submarine communication - which has two problems - detecting a sparse and intermittent signal to get a useful bitrate out, and generating a beam of sufficient intensity to begin with, let alone a beam that is steerable!
- make3 5y agoso 30
- chasil 5y agoAt the maximum.