Are you hyped for Hyper Kamiokande?>260 million liter water tank>is expected to detect a proton decay in the first time in history
>>17034123It's a pretty impressive detector. I think it will produce pretty solid results once it's online.
It has more water than a small lake
>detect a proton decayhow do they filter out neutrino interactions?
japan just hogging fresh water for themselves
It'll be yet another false positive they'll pass off as a "resounding success" to embezzle more taxes. All of you are retarded.
>is expected to detect a proton decay in the first time in historyIf protons decay then that means CCC is a thing.
>>17034208CCC means what?
>>17034219Conformal cyclic cosmology, presumably.
>>17034123can someone qrd how these detectors work
>>17034299>Neutrino strikes something in the chamber>Produces a single photon>Photon travels through chamber and produces cherenkov radiation>Super sensitive photon detectors see the trail
>>17034309how do they know the cherenkov radiation came from a neutrino that was the product of proton decay? there's lots of neutrinos.
>>17034299A neutrino bumps into an electron of a water molecule. This causes the electron to travel through the water in a very high speed. In fact it travels faster than light, of course not faster than light in a vacuum but faster than light in water. By doing this it messes with the electromagnetic field of the surrounding water molecules. As a result it is able to create light (who knows how). This light is known as Cherenkov light. Due to the wave nature of light, the Cherenkov light created by this high speed electron is in a conical shape and this cone of light registers as a ring shape in the detector walls.The wall consists of thousands of photomultiplier tubes which utilize the photoelectric effect. If a single photon hits a detector, this releases an electron which gets multiplied into more electrons and those become an electric signal.
>>17034123Yes, that would be neat.
>>17034315It's detecting photons resulting from neutrino collisions, numbnuts.
What's the point? What does it prove?
>>17034344No shit. Why does it have to do with proton decay (OP)?
>>17034123woaw much science, very technology. how will this markedly improve my quality of life?
>>17034362>No shit.Then why does your silly post directly contradict that? And to answer your other question: I don't know.
I fucking cannot stand it at all that all particle detectors are is big tanks of water. The history of particle physics is nothing but tanks of water. In the future there will be bigger tanks of water and that's it. Fuck it.
>>17034159very carefully
>>17034447Our entire tech stack is built on boiling water. We are the water boilers who are made mostly of water.
And 100 years ago, everyone “knew” that the world was flat. >:D
>>17034447>I fucking cannot stand it at all that all particle detectors are is big tanks of water. The history of particle physics is nothing but tanks of water. In the future there will be bigger tanks of water and that's it. Fuck it.deal with it7>>17036363>Our entire tech stack is built on boiling water. We are the water boilers who are made mostly of waterthat's an interesting way of putting it
>>17036473What? In 1916 most people already knew the earth was round and people with sea-related jobs knew it was since the middle ages, Columbus got to America because he thought he could go to India by going west
>>17037418>since the middle agesMore like since the antiquity
>>17034123Me personally I'm ready for motherfuckiokande
>>17037430Not that anon, you're right of course, but is this also true of the peasant class?
>>17037509I don't think most peasants ever thought about the shape of the world
