Low-Energy Neutrinos Detected In Real Time

Roland Piquepaille sends us word of first results from the Borexino detector in Italy, where an international team of more than 100 researchers has detected low-energy solar neutrinos for the first time. These results confirm recent "theories about the nature of neutrinos and the inner workings of the sun and other stars." In particular, it's now almost certain that neutrinos oscillate among three types, namely electron, muon, and tau neutrinos. The Borexino detector lies almost a mile underground near L'Aquila, Italy, and it sets new standards in the purity of the materials used in its construction.

Re:Neutrino jokes here:

[dsginter]

Neutrinos - the cornerstone of *any* nutritious breakfast! (Man, this cereal goes *right* through me!)

Homer: Mmmmm... elementary particles!

Re:Some basic papers

[sholden]

BTW, particle physics has an awesome WWW presence.

It's almost as if the world's largest particle physics laboratory had something to do with creating it.

Spooky!

Re:Some basic papers

[sayfawa]

Al Gore is a particle physicist?

Re:Some basic papers

[MyLongNickName]

Al Gore INVENTED particles.

Re:Gran Sasso

[Sunburnt]

Anyway, back in 2002 there was a chemical accident when some of the liquid scintillator material (highly toxic) got into the local ground water.

Who knew particle physicists were such a kinky bunch?

Re:Neutrinos

[Anonymous Coward]

I should go call up my particle physicist body to post up some comments.

We'd really rather not know about your body collection. Especially if you use them to post comments. Try alt.killers.serial

Finally, low calorie neutrinos.

[Anonymous Coward]

I love neutrinos, but my doctor said I shouldn't eat them. With new low-energy neutrinos, I can have some without the guilt - - and without my doctor hounding me.

Re:Low-Latency, Direct Communications

[ErikZ]

I know! I was looking at this the other day: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap990623.html [nasa.gov]

And that just screams "Portable antenna"

There's no way to grab neutrinos man. The reason there's no interference in neutrino transmission, is because nothing can block it/pick it up.

It's about time.

[GigG]

Thank God, we will finally be able to track the Romulans when they are cloaked.

Re:Oops! My bad!

[Mr. Underbridge]

Well then, my compliments to kdawson for showing the way and doing some actual editing.

Today's weather forcast calls for airborne swine throughout the country, and a blizzard localized to Hell.

Spoon

[QuantumPion]

In other news, CERN scientists stated that they would have detected 90% more neutrinos, except some jackass was playing an MP3 on the data collecting computer, which happened to be running Vista.