They wait for the flash of light that signals the rare occasion when a neutrino hits an ice molecule.
Called IceCube, it will work by detecting the flashes of light generated on those rare occasions when a neutrino hits one of the atoms in a molecule of water in the ice.
Swifter than a speeding neutrino they were not, but explanations for the news that subatomic particles apparently travelled faster than light have still arrived remarkably fast.
When a neutron inside an atom decays, it produces a proton, an electron, and a neutrino.
Until now. A paper published last week in Nature Geoscience reports the results of recent work using neutrino detectors to quantify the radiogenic production of heat.
When a neutrino transforms a quark, a lepton is emitted.
