There’s been quite a lot of discussion at this meeting so far about neutrino physics (and indeed neutrino astrophysics) which, I suppose, is not surprising given the proximity of my current location, the city of L’Aquila, to the Gran Sasso Laboratory which is situated inside a mountain a few kilometres away. If I were being tactless I could at this point mention the infamous “fast-than-light-neutrino” episode that emanated from here a while ago, but obviously I won’t do that.
Anyway, I thought I’d take the opportunity to put up this video which describes how neutrinos are detected at the NOVA experiment on which some of my colleagues in the Department of Physics & Astronomy at the University of Sussex work and which is now up and running. If you want to know how to detect particles so elusive that they can pass right through the Earth without being absorbed, then watch this:
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