PHYSICAL REVIEW FOCUS 30 April 2007 http://focus.aps.org/
David Ehrenstein, American Physical Society
Introductions to the Focus stories of the past week;
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LANDMARKS: DETECTING THE ELUSIVE NEUTRINO
The neutrino lived for a quarter of a century as a theoretical
suggestion before its discovery in the 1950s, as reported in two
Physical Review articles. Identifying the elusive particle required
a detection system of unprecedented size, allied with ingenious
data analysis, to pull a tiny signal out of a noisy background. The
discovery of the neutrino, with roots in the wartime Manhattan
project, marked the growing importance of "big science" projects
that would increasingly dominate particle physics.
(F. Reines and C. L. Cowan, Jr., Phys. Rev. 92, 830 and
F. Reines et al., Phys. Rev. 117, 159)
Links to the papers: http://link.aps.org/abstract/PR/v92/e830 and
http://link.aps.org/abstract/PR/v117/e159
COMPLETE Focus story at http://focus.aps.org/story/v19/st13
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