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Super-neutrino!

The most energetic neutrino ever detected has just been ‘captured’ by the KM3NeT/ARCA experiment. CNRS physicists are in the starting blocks.

Deployment of node 2 of the Provence-Mediterranean Submarine Laboratory (LSPM). Installed at a depth of 2,450 m off the coast of Toulon, this underwater cabled infrastructure brings together instruments to study neutrinos and the environment.

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All over the world, experiments are getting ready to decipher the messages of these elusive particles.

The international KM3NeT collaboration, in which CNRS plays a leading role, has just detected a neutrino that is thirty times more energetic than any previously detected anywhere in the world. This exceptional discovery opens up new perspectives for understanding extreme energy phenomena in the Universe and the origin of cosmic rays. It is a remarkable result from the KM3NeT telescope, a gigantic detector being built at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea.

Take a look at the images of the KM3NeT experiment, which consists of an array of detectors distributed in the form of detection lines that capture their light.

To find out more about this first detection of an ultra-high-energy neutrino

Detecting cosmic neutrinos with the KM3NeT telescope

The KM3NeT experiment consists of a matrix of detectors distributed in the form of detection lines that capture their light. By scanning several million cubic metres of deep water, the trajectory and energy of the original neutrino can be accurately deduced.

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