Ghosts are always welcome, when you’re looking for neutrinos
Halloween has come and gone, but Yale physicist Bonnie Fleming still has ghosts in her machine.
On Oct. 15, Fleming and colleagues at the MicroBooNE physics experiment in Illinois detected their first neutrino candidates, which are also known as ghost particles. It represents a milestone for the project, involving years of hard work and a 40-foot-long particle detector that is filled with 170 tons of liquid argon. (more…)