This rare event offers a unique opportunity to explore the universe, including probing the fundamental properties of the ...

Electron antineutrinos are emitted during nuclear beta decay, a type of radioactive decay in which a neutron decays into a ...

Undersea detectors anchored deep in the Mediterranean Sea found an ultra-high-energy neutrino, a particle that opens a new ...

Using an observatory located deep beneath the Mediterranean Sea, an international team has detected an ultra-high-energy ...

The neutrino observatory KM3Net is located in the depths of the Mediterranean Sea and measures a cosmic neutrino at the ...

A “ghost particle” discovered by a detector in the Mediterranean carried 30 times more energy than any neutrino observed to ...

The facility consists of 300 steel water tanks equipped with photomultipliers sensitive to fleeting flashes of light, known ...

Using an observatory under construction deep beneath the Mediterranean Sea near Sicily, scientists have detected a ghostly ...

Researchers have detected a cosmic neutrino with record-breaking energy beneath the Mediterranean Sea, offering insights into ...

Cherenkov radiation is a phenomenon that occurs when charged particles, such as electrons, travel through a dielectric medium at a speed greater than the speed of light in that medium. This effect ...

For water at room temperature, this angle is 41º. In a water Cherenkov detector, the Cherenkov radiation is detected, usually by photomultiplier tubes (PMTs), and the cone of emission reconstructed.

While this sounds like it might make things more complicated for you, hoping to detect a muon, it actually makes the operation much simpler, thanks to Cherenkov radiation. The speed of light in a ...