**Underground physics: Searching for neutrinos in deep places (But not in SD)

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Underground physics: Searching for neutrinos in deep places

Posted on: Sunday April 10, 2005.

HUGE NEUTRINO DETECTOR – Billions of NuMi-made neutrinos pass through the MINOS Far Detector each day, but only about 10 strike an atomic nucleus inside and are detected. Image courtesy: Argonne National Laboratory.

A new physics experiment combines thousands of tons of steel plates, a powerful particle accelerator and 450 miles of solid rock to reveal the secrets of a particle that sometimes seems to barely exist.

Researchers in Argonne's High Energy Physics Division were instrumental in getting the experiment, called the Main Injector Neutrino Oscillation Search (MINOS), launched in the late 1980s, and later designed and built many of the detector components. By providing the first precise measurements of some of the most fundamental properties of neutrinos, MINOS physicists expect to shed new light on the role these particles played in shaping the universe.

MINOS was built by a collaboration of more than 30 national laboratories, universities and scientific institutions from six nations. Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) has the lead role. Construction was completed in early 2005, and the experiment is now beginning its initial five-year run.

Read the rest of the storyat the site. Sounds a lot like the research projected to occur in Homestake if converted to a lab.

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**Stay tuned even if you dare only sneak deep underground looks at sites that aren't Republican froth...I won't tell anybody--- Doug Wiken

Comments

[Glen]

Your interest in neutrino research, Homestake, Nobel prizes, etc., visit

http://portablepoetryportal.blogspot.com/2005/04/inner-secret-discovery.html

[Doug Wiken]

Take a look at the "Portable Poetry Portal". Poetry and I are not really very good friends. Unlike Glen, I must confess I have never much appreciated digging meaning out of poet's puzzling phrases...despite attempts by several literature teachers to communicate something in that regard to me.

Combining poetry with the intricacies of Quantum Physics makes it even worse. Modern Physics was more than enough of strain on my abilities without translation into poetry...Dr. R.D. Redin struggled to fire up enough confidence in his teaching style to barely speak physics aloud in English let alone in poetic mode. He fought battles with a piece of chalk at the blackboard and sometimes there was concern he might lose a battle with his own chalk. Darn nice guy anyway. Not sure if he is still alive or not. He was a professor emeritus long before I started spewing forth in blogs.

[Glen]

http://www2.rnw.nl/rnw/en/features/science/poetry001016.html

Science and poetry! Who would have thought that these two fields had so much in common? Yet today major scientific institutions the world over boast ‘resident poets' - and science itself provides material in abundance for the poets of today.

Many very famous poets have drawn upon science as a source of inspiration, whether to comment upon it and its effects or to simply borrow words, phrases and attitudes of enquiry.

It's not all the preserve of poets though. Through the ages, scientists have written numerous poems that draw upon their professional interests. Apparently Sir Isaac Newton wrote a considerable amount during his student days, and Miroslav Holub was one of his more recent kindred spirits.