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New South Pole Telescope Seeks Neutrinos in Ice

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Anne L. Fischer, Senior Editor

A telescope under construction at the South Pole will be employed to study the high-energy subatomic particles known as neutrinos. IceCube, as the telescope is called, will consist of up to 4800 basketball-size instruments spread throughout 1 km3 of Antarctic ice, buried 1400 to 2400 m below the surface. According to Spencer Klein of the Institute for Nuclear and Particle Astrophysics at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California, a member of the team that designed the digital optical modules used in IceCube, the modules pick out the rare light signal produced by a neutrino...Read full article

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    Published: April 2005
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    An afocal optical device made up of lenses or mirrors, usually with a magnification greater than unity, that renders distant objects more distinct, by enlarging their images on the retina.
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