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neutrino telescope

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neutrino telescope [nü′trē·nō ′tel·ə‚skōp]
(astronomy)
Any device for detecting and determining the directions of extraterrestrial neutrinos, such as the deep underwater muon and neutrino detector.


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Razis said that for three years now his team has been participating in a European partnership of 24 universities, to create an under-sea neutrino telescope of an overall volume of 1-2 cubic kilometres.
Now earth scientists are taking a neutrino telescope and looking down, to illuminate the Earth's interior by detecting "geoneutrinos"--neutrinos produced within the planet itself.
It covers the main directions of their unification, basic theoretical ideas and experiments, the general scheme of building up the theory of interacting fields, and principles of operation and designs of accelerators, neutrino telescopes, and elementary particle detectors.
 
 
 
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