This event shows the real tracks produced in the Gargamelle bubble chamber that provided the first confirmation of a neutral current interaction|CERN Document Server|CC BY 4.0
For the first time, researchers at the University of California, Irvine have detected neutrinos created in a particle collider.
These subatomic particles can help us understand how neutrinos interact in the cosmos and how stars burn and explode into supernovae.
Neutrinos—or “ghost particles”—lack charge and have a virtually non-existent mass. They are everywhere—every time atomic nuclei combine or break away, neutrinos are born, but once produced, they almost never interact with matter.
These tiny subatomic particles travel large distances and collide with the Earth and can tell us about the universe.
The results were achieved using the FASERnu detector at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, the European Council for Nuclear Research in Geneva, Switzerland.
Neutrinos were first spotted in 1956.