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Article: Seeking neutrinos under the ocean. (Deep Underground Muon and Neutrino Detector)
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- Science News
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- April 16, 1988
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Seeking neutrinos under the ocean
Astrophysicists have long believed that a variety of highly energetic objects in the sky emit neutrinos. The actual detection of such neutrinos from supernova 1987 A proved the point and got the science of neutrino astronomy off to an observational start. Now interested scientists hope to deploy the largest detector for astronomical neutrinos yet contemplated. DUMAND, or the Deep Underwater Muon and Neutrino Detector, will use a volume of the ocean off the island of Hawaii as its detection medium. The group that wants to build it has just completed the first stage: verification that a string of instuments deployed underwater ...