Radio waves detect particle showers in a block of plastic
Tuesday, February 25, 2020 - 09:50
in Astronomy & Space
When neutrinos crash into water molecules in the billion-plus tons of ice that make up the detector at the IceCube Neutrino Observatory in Antarctica, more than 5,000 sensors detect the light of subatomic particles produced by the collisions. But as one might expect, these grand-scale experiments don't come cheap.