A neutrino is an elementary particle that interacts via the weak interaction and gravity. The neutrino is so named because it is electrically neutral and because its rest mass is so small that it was
The first use of a hydrogen bubble chamber to detect neutrinos, on 13 November 1970, at Argonne National Laboratory. Here a neutrino hits a proton in a hydrogen atom; the collision occurs at the point where three tracks emanate on the right of the photograph.
Fred Reines and Clyde Cowan conducting the neutrino experiment c. 1956
The IceCube Neutrino Observatory is a neutrino observatory developed by the University of Wisconsin–Madison and constructed at the Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station in Antarctica. The project is a rec
IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole
IceCube drilling tower and hose reel in December 2009
"Taklampa," one of the Digital Optical Modules of IceCube's hole #85
Three dimensional layout of the neutrino detector