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Old 28-12-2010, 12:22 PM
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Originally Posted by renormalised View Post
That's how they detect the neutrinos in the first place, via Cherenkov radiation. The neutrinos hit an electron in the atoms in the ice/water and they give off the characteristic blue "ping" when they relax and go back to their original state.

They don't actually detect the neutrinos physically, per se.
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