A New World
My ramblings about science….

Well I felt that as I wrote a blog on IceCube last week that given this news I should also write a blog on it…

  As I don’t need to repeat the physics it’s a nice  quick blog, another neutrino detector that works in the same way except instead of using ice it uses water, off the coast of France, attached to the seabed are strings of photomultiplier tubes (12 strings with 75 detectors  along their 450m height).  They’re each toped with a bouy that itself is 2km below the surface of the sea!  It’s called ANTARES, cost about 20million euros and is about 4 years late starting up…  But all should be working now… let’s hope it is.

Reference: Physics World, V. 21, No. 5, page 9.

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