In today's The Conversation article
"Shooting the moon: the search for ultra high energy
neutrinos" CSIRO Fellow Ron Ekers and Helen Sim describes not only the
"Oh-my-God"
particle, a particle from space - probably the nucleus of an iron atom with
the energy of a well-bowled cricket ball, but also neutrinos and using the
Moon as a neutrino detector. Using the novel 13-beam receiver system on the
64-m Parkes Telescope, Ekers et al. searched for flashes of radio wave lasting
just a nanosecond, generated by neutrinos interacting with rocks under the
moon's surface (known as the Askaryan effect). For more information, read
The Conversation article and references therein.
