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IceCube detection of a high-energy particle proves 60-year-old theory
phys.org ^ | MARCH 10, 2021 | by University of Wisconsin-Madison

Posted on 03/10/2021 3:44:45 PM PST by BenLurkin

On December 6, 2016, a high-energy particle called an electron antineutrino hurtled to Earth from outer space at close to the speed of light carrying 6.3 petaelectronvolts (PeV) of energy. Deep inside the ice sheet at the South Pole, it smashed into an electron and produced a particle that quickly decayed into a shower of secondary particles. The interaction was captured by a massive telescope buried in the Antarctic glacier, the IceCube Neutrino Observatory.

IceCube had seen a Glashow resonance event, a phenomenon predicted by Nobel laureate physicist Sheldon Glashow in 1960. With this detection, scientists provided another confirmation of the Standard Model of particle physics. It also further demonstrated the ability of IceCube, which detects nearly massless particles called neutrinos using thousands of sensors embedded in the Antarctic ice, to do fundamental physics.

Sheldon Glashow first proposed this resonance in 1960 when he was a postdoctoral researcher at what is today the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, Denmark. There, he wrote a paper in which he predicted that an antineutrino (a neutrino's antimatter twin) could interact with an electron to produce an as-yet undiscovered particle—if the antineutrino had just the right energy—through a process known as resonance.

When the proposed particle, the W- boson, was finally discovered in 1983, it turned out to be much heavier than what Glashow and his colleagues had expected back in 1960. The Glashow resonance would require a neutrino with an energy of 6.3 PeV, almost 1,000 times more energetic than what CERN's Large Hadron Collider is capable of producing. In fact, no human-made particle accelerator on Earth, current or planned, could create a neutrino with that much energy.

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TOPICS: Astronomy; Science
KEYWORDS: 1960; 1983; 201612; 20161206; 983; antarctica; antimatter; antineutrino; antineutrinos; astronomy; glashowresonance; icecube; neutrino; particlephysics; physics; science; standardmodel; stephenglashow; stringtheory; wboson
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To: BenLurkin

And if my lefty, millennial step-niece astrophysicist has her way, they’ll be able to perform this experiment in Kansas in a few decades (under the new North American ice sheet; she’s one of those ‘scientific hypocrites’ who ignore the science and curtsy to Mann’s lies).


21 posted on 03/10/2021 9:37:05 PM PST by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: BenLurkin; 6SJ7; AdmSmith; AFPhys; Arkinsaw; allmost; aristotleman; autumnraine; bajabaja; ...
Thanks BenLurkin. Great, now I've got that Monkees song running through my head.


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22 posted on 03/11/2021 8:05:24 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: BenLurkin

When I rread the headline for a split second I thought this guy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_Cube

had found a new career !


23 posted on 03/11/2021 8:11:50 AM PST by Reily
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To: BenLurkin

What would have happened to a human body if hit by that single particle?


24 posted on 03/11/2021 8:28:32 AM PST by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: Agatsu77

Wow!


25 posted on 03/11/2021 8:29:20 AM PST by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: BenLurkin

bump for later


26 posted on 03/15/2021 6:06:59 AM PDT by GOPJ (Race: the Achilles' heel of the Democrat Party. Telling the truth about race destroys the race card)
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