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I have been watching Amazon and Alibaba for neutrino detectors. None so far. How big is the experiment (outside distance)? It would be great to do a giant CAT

by tocs3 2y ago

I have been watching Amazon and Alibaba for neutrino detectors. None so far. How big is the experiment (outside distance)? It would be great to do a giant CAT scan of the Earth.

scheme271 2y ago
Neutrinos don't really interact much with other matter so you need either a really intense source of neutrinos or a really big detector (think multiple tons of stuff ) or both. So you're talking about a 10m x 10m volume plus you need the detector to be in a place that doesn't get much other radiation so you need to bury it a few hundred meters underground.
- dhosek 2y ago
  So it’s gonna be a special order from Alibaba then?
- fnord77 2y ago
  https://news.uchicago.edu/story/worlds-smallest-neutrino-detector-observes-elusive-interactions-particles https://news.uchicago.edu/story/worlds-smallest-neutrino-det...