A Massive Ice-Bound Detector Searches for Infinitesimally Small Particles
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Engineers and researchers with the IceCube Neutrino Observatory explain the challenges of building a unique, NSF funded detector

A Massive Ice-Bound Detector Searches for Infinitesimally Small Particles

March 23, 2017


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In this recently released, roughly six-minute video, engineers and researchers with the IceCube Neutrino Observatory explain the challenges of building a unique, NSF funded detector--a cube of instruments a kilometer on a side--beneath the ice at NSF's Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station and exactly what neutrinos can tell use about the nature of our violent and mysterious cosmos.

View the video here: IceCube Explained: IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the University of Wisconsin-Madison