World's smallest neutrino detector observes elusive interactions of particles
Thursday, August 3, 2017 - 13:02
in Physics & Chemistry
In 1974, a Fermilab physicist predicted a new way for ghostly particles called neutrinos to interact with matter. More than four decades later, a UChicago-led team of physicists built the world's smallest neutrino detector to observe the elusive interaction for the first time.