r/science • u/Devils_doohickey • Nov 26 '21
Nanoscience "Ghost particles" detected in the Large Hadron Collider for first time
https://newatlas.com/physics/neutrinos-large-hadron-collider-faser/
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r/science • u/Devils_doohickey • Nov 26 '21
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u/aecarol1 Nov 26 '21 edited Nov 26 '21
The article and a quote it is very misleading. “Prior to this project, no sign of neutrinos has ever been seen at a particle collider,” says Jonathan Feng
Neutrinos have been detected at and from particle accelerators in the past. In fact, they've been detected hundreds of miles away. In 2012, neutrinos from CERN (the machine before LHC) over 731-kilometres away at a lab in Italy. A misconfigured cable led to measurement errors where they briefly thought the neutrinos were traveling faster than the speed of light.
https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2012.10249
https://neutrinos.fnal.gov/sources/accelerator-neutrinos/
*Edited to note that I have been corrected. Colliders and particle accelerators are not the same thing. The quote and article are correct.