This Is What Neutrinos Look Like When Scientists Catch Them

Scientist use crazy technology to hunt down the elusive “ghost particle”, from bubble chambers to glowing radiation. Here are the different methods they’ve tried, and are still using today.

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“ A cloud chamber is a box containing a supersaturated vapour. As charged particles pass through, they ionise the vapour, which condenses to form droplets on the ions. The tracks of the particles become visible as trails of droplets, which can be photographed. “

3 Questions: Pinning down a neutrino’s mass
“Today, a major experiment has joined this fundamental search. The Karlsruhe Tritium Neutrino Experiment, or KATRIN, is a massive detector based in the town of Karlsruhe, Germany, that has been designed to measure a neutrino’s mass with far greater precision than existing experiments. At KATRIN’s heart is a 200-ton, zeppelin-like spectrometer, and scientists hope that with the experiment launching today they can start to collect data that in the next few years will give them a better idea of just how massive neutrinos can be.”

The short-baseline detectives and the mysterious case of the sterile neutrino
“Scientists from Fermilab and more than 45 institutions around the world have teamed up to design a program to catch this hypothetical neutrino in the act. The program, called the Short-Baseline Neutrino (SBN) program, makes use of a trio of detectors positioned along one of Fermilab’s neutrino beams. Although there are other reactor and source-based experiments in the world that actively seek a fourth neutrino, also called a sterile neutrino, SBN is the only program that uses a particle accelerator to produce neutrinos and multiple neutrino detectors for this search.”
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[TommoCarroll]

You’ve done it again nature. You beautiful thing you!

[DiCola]

The subtitles are accidentally the subtitles from the previous video about the new high-speed camera

Edit: it's been fixed!

[paracleteconsult]

This lady is an excellent narrator. Well spoken and fluent, knows her subject matter, and truly engaging, Top work.

[alphacore]

that underground bubbleshield looks badass

[bostontracy]

There's a simpler concept to control and directly affect uncharged subatomic particles. Magnetism wouldn't work for the reason that neutrinos have no charge, but they WILL work because said neutrinos have spin and are moving. You could therefore use a very powerful magnetic field from all directions to contain neutrinos. You can't exactly force them to stand still, because as soon as they do they're unaffected by magnetism, but then they would move and are suddenly affected by magnetism again. Bear in mind this has to be a really, really powerful magnetic field, placed over a small area, and you need a way to detect said neutrinos so you can do what you planned on in the first place and see said neutrinos. Conceptually it sounds simple, but realistically it's far from it.

[mrslinkydragon]

That opening picture is on the cover of a readers digest book :)

[RtowerIII]

But how does it make the pattern? I get how they record it but how do they make the image? Not satisfied sorry

[sarahlight]

Water is the life drive, the memory deposit.The interaction between water, at an early stage in a planet formation, and neutrinos could very well explain the transfer of light energy and information from subatomic particles to energize water that can act as a catalyser to early life chemical reactions.

[tsresc]

*Neutrinos are so beautiful. They're the children of atomic particles. Their patterns are cute and lovely.*

[niklasjuliushoermann]

Sometimes science is more art than science, Morty. Lot of people don't get that.

[Tenekai]

The Strokes - Is This It

One of my favorite albums of all time. Bring back a lot of high school memories.

[HShango]

That neutrinos reminds me of the golden ratio

[kentbolhano]

Science does not imitate art. It is a part of Art itself

[jpconley]

One of my favourite science channels. Keep the great content coming!

[Donglator]

neutrino: "you'll never catch me! yah-yeet!"

[sterlingarcher]

Could 'Mass' be created by free electrons being 'captured' and bridled into structured energy?

The more complex and 'heavier' the element, the more complex and dense the outer shell.

The less interaction with this 'bridled energy' (matter), the less mass. Hence, Neutrinos.

Gravity itself just a higher order static effect within the bridled, structured electrons (essentially creating the Strong and Weak forces), rather than standard static effects of free electrons. The more complex and dense the electron arrangement, the stronger the gravitic effects.

Edit: to be clear, I dont think Neutrions move; structured energy moves through the Neutrino field. This is a static sea of energy that higher order energies 'collect' from, their Neutrality being shaken into + or - by the passing matter/energy and being subsumed by the passing structure.

When we see an electron or positron 'disappear', they are meerly sinking back into neutrality; into the neutrino field.

[klulu-kun]

I imagined them saying "Is this it.." kinda in a melodramatic way. Like they're questioning their existence because they may have found the last particle to be discovered. A philsophical changing moment, but then she made it sound like a joke "Pttf, is this it?"

[komradekat]

It actually looks like a Mandelbrot set. We live in a fractal universe.

[eternalprogression]

U talkin about Gargamel from the smurfs

[Zantagiro]

HIS power and knowledge are beyond mind blowing!