Icy observatory launches neutrino hunt
A telescope made from photomultiplier tubes strung on cables and sunk deep into the Antarctic ice has begun hunting for cosmic sources of the elusive subatomic particles called neutrinos.
References:
1999. Detector in polar ice begins the hunt for the cosmic neutrino. University of Wisconsin-Madison News Release. Available at gopher://wiscinfo.wisc.edu:70/00/.data/.news-rel/.9903/.990305-4.
Further Readings:
1991. Putting neutrino detection on ice. Science News 140(Oct. 5):219.
Additional information about the Antarctic Muon and Neutrino Detector Array is available at the University of Wisconsin's Web site at http://alizarin.physics.wisc.edu/ and at the University of California's Web site at http://amanda.berkeley.edu/www/amanda.html.
Sources:
Francis Halzen
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Physics Department
1150 University Avenue
Madison, WI 53706-1390
Douglas M. Lowder
University of California, Berkeley
Department of Physics
366 LeConte Hall
Berkeley, CA 94720
From Science News, Vol. 155, No. 13, March 27, 1999, p. 207. Copyright © 1999, Science Service.
