Magnetic feld, minos, and Aug 14 2003

[sattahipdeep]

Thursday, August 14, 2003
Scientists of the MINOS collaboration at the Department of Energy's Fermi
National Accelerator Laboratory announced the official start of data-taking with
the 6,000-ton detector for the Main Injector Neutrino Oscillation Search.
Physicists will use the MINOS detector, located deep in an historic iron mine
in northern Minnesota, to explore the phenomenon of neutrino mass.

Scientists have discovered three different types of neutrinos: electron neutrinos, muon
neutrinos, and tau neutrinos. The particles play an important role in stellar processes
like the creation of energy in stars as well as supernova explosions. Experimental
results obtained over the last five years have confirmed that the evasive particles have
mass and switch back and forth among their three different identities while traveling
through space and matter. Scientists expect the MINOS experiment to provide the best
measurement of neutrino properties associated with the so-called "atmospheric"
oscillations.



http://www.fnal.gov/pub/presspass/press_releases/MINOS_photos/index.html

Nuclear Regulatory Report for August 15, 2003
http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/event-status/event/2003/20030815en.html

What's really going on?

http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minotaur

http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minos

[seemslikeadream]

1. I have no idea but

a friend of mine's husband worked at Fermi as a janitor and cleaned up all the little messes they made. He got sick was fired and died of brain cancer shortly thereafter.

[JHB]

2. What's REALLY going on?

High-energy physics research on subatomic particles.

This is nothing fundamentally new, just a new tool for doing the research.