PHYSICISTS working with the giant instrument called the IceCube Neutrino Observatory— which is buried a couple of kilometres deep under a huge mass of Antarctic ice and is designed to detect ultra-high-energy neutrinos from outer space—may have found evidence of a rare neutrino interaction with matter, something that had been predicted to exist more than six decades ago. In 1959, …
If you ever watched the show The Big Bang Theory, then you might remember an episode where Sheldon Cooper and the gang go on a expedition to Antarctica to discover neutrinos. The incident is something called a Glashow resonance event — first proposed by Nobel laureate physicist Sheldon Glashow in 1960 —and is a confirmation of the Standard Model of …
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