China is deploying thousands of sensors nearly a mile under the ocean's surface, to monitor the darkness for flashes of light that reveal the presence of a neutrino.
China is building a detector deep beneath the ocean surface to hunt for the world's most elusive subatomic particles.
This spark of light helps scientists not only know that the neutrino was there but also identify from where it might have originated. Some neutrinos come from nuclear reactions within the sun, where atoms fuse together deep within the star. Those fusion reactions release neutrinos, which zip away from the sun within seconds. Some neutrinos come from nuclear fission, such as within nuclear reactors.
The new detector will be built with 55,000 sensors suspended 0.6 miles beneath the ocean's surface, the project lead researcher, Chen Mingjun, told Xinhua Net , China's state-run news agency. The sun's rays can't travel that deep, which will help the sensors detect neutrinos and distinguish them from solar neutrinos.
The Chinese detector won’t be the only underwater neutrino detector. Russia is building the Baikal Gigaton Volume Detector in Siberia's Lake Baikal, the world’s deepest lake. Then there’s the upcoming European Cubic Kilometer Neutrino Telescope, a multi-institution collaboration that will hunt for neutrinos in the Mediterranean.
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