Neutrinos are tiny, almost weightless particles that only interact by gravity and nuclear decay because they don't interact electromagnetically i.e with light. It literally can't be seen. In fact detecting a neutrino is kind of catching a bullet with butterfly net. A beam of neutrinos can travel through lead for 2 years before it stops. In comparison, radiation from a nuclear reactor will be blocked by a 10 cm of lead. So one common way to detect a neutrino is to fill a big tank with water. We know that light slow down while traveling through water. And if a neutrino knocks out the electron in water, the electron will zip through the water faster than the light does. When this happens, the electron gives a weak glow called Cherenkov radiation.
"Cherenkov radiations is an electromagnetic radiation which is emitted in result of passing of a charged particle through some dielectric medium with a speed more than phase velocity of light in that medium. a classic example of Cherenkov radiation is characteristic blue glow of an underwater nuclear reactor".
Neutrino is not ''vampire'' of Physics
ReplyDeleteIn order to save the law of conservation of energy Wolfgang Pauli postulated the existence of hypothetical electrically-neutral particle, that would be emitted along with the beta particle (an electron) . . . . but in quantum physics the Schrödinger: electron’s psi-wavefunction (Ψ) collapses . . . that seems that in quantum physics the law of conservation of energy is violated . . . but it is only ''seems'' because so-called ''neutrino-particle'' is only transformation of an electron according to '' the law of conservation and transformation of energy/mass''