Dept of Energy's Antineutrino Detector Image courtesy of the Department of Energy
All sorts of ideas may pop into your head about the above image featuring the Department of Energy's Photo of the Day, including possibilities of new outer space technology and alien encounters. However these magnified figures are actually photomultiplier tubes hat line the walls of theDaya Bay neutrino detector. The non-scientific version – A Photomutiplier Tube: extremely sensitive detector of light. All of which is part of the Daya BayReactor Neutrino Experiment.
Photomultiplier Tube Image courtesy of Wikipedia
The Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment's has set out to answer the questions that have left scientists wondering about the tiny subatomic particles of mass known as neutrinos.
Wikipedia's defition:
A neutrino is an electrically neutral,weakly interacting elementary subatomic particle with half-integer spin.All evidence suggests that neutrinos have mass but that their mass is tiny even by the standards of subatomic particles.Their mass has never been measured accurately Neutrinos are created as a result of certain types of radioactive decay,or nuclear reactions such as those that take place in the Sun,in nuclear reactors,or when cosmic rays hit atoms.
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