If I’m not mistaken, the water looks bright blue because some particles are going faster than light in this water. So it emits a blue flash akin to the Sonic boom when a plane goes faster than sound speed in the atmosphere. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherenkov_radiation
Not sure about this particular experiment, but neutrino detectors are usually deep underground and trying to find a tiny tiny spark of Cherenkov radiation or other effects.
I’m guessing the blue colour is simply paint.
From Wikipedia (and my neutrino physics knowledge) , the goal is to measure neutrino oscillation (neutrino charge flavour when travelling), and it seens to be a set of detector located at various distance from a nuclear reactor. The photo mostly looks like one of the reactors rather than the detector
If I’m not mistaken, the water looks bright blue because some particles are going faster than light in this water. So it emits a blue flash akin to the Sonic boom when a plane goes faster than sound speed in the atmosphere. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherenkov_radiation
Not sure about this particular experiment, but neutrino detectors are usually deep underground and trying to find a tiny tiny spark of Cherenkov radiation or other effects.
I’m guessing the blue colour is simply paint.
From Wikipedia (and my neutrino physics knowledge) , the goal is to measure neutrino oscillation (neutrino charge flavour when travelling), and it seens to be a set of detector located at various distance from a nuclear reactor. The photo mostly looks like one of the reactors rather than the detector
maybe the neutrinos are emitting blueberry charge flavor.
I mean… I’m not saying that isn’t happening but also water is just blue.
Thats cool as fuck, thanks for explaining!
Yup, pretty much the only kind of radiation we can see without melting your eyeballs.
Fun fact, you can totally swim in that pool. Don’t go too deep but it’s cleaner and safer than your average public pool.
Yup, it’s basically the underwater version of sonic booms. Pretty cool stuff