Researchers have detected neutrinos produced by a particle accelerator for the first time. This happened with the Large Hadron Collider (LHC; photo) of the particle accelerator of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) near Geneva, Switzerland.
The understanding of neutrinos, elementary particles, needs to be deepened, the University of Bern announced Monday. The neutrinos played an important role in the early phase of the universe and are the key to discovering the fundamental laws of nature. For example, research can be done into how the particles acquire mass.
Common in the universe
These particles are common in the universe, but are difficult to study because they rarely interact with other matter, as the University of Bern, which was involved in the experiment, wrote. Thanks to new detectors, the neutrinos at CERN can be detected.
Neutrinos have so far escaped detectors
For example, the LHC at CERN can generate such high-energy particles by colliding two particle beams with extremely high energy. However, until now, neutrinos have never been detected at a particle accelerator like the LHC because they escape the large detectors without leaving a trace.
“The goal is to figure out how these neutrinos are formed, study their properties and look for new elementary particles,” said Akitaka Ariga, a member of the Laboratory of High-Energy Physics at the University of Bern. broadcast.
It is estimated that an area the size of a fingertip is penetrated by about 65 billion neutrinos from the sun every second. But only a small part of it collides with other particles. The detection of these particles is correspondingly difficult.
Source: Krone
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