Atmospheric neutrinos at Kolar Gold Fields
Neutrinos atmosféricos en las minas de Kolar
- Date
- 1965 · confidence high
- Place
- Kolar Gold Fields, Kolar, Karnataka, India
- Credited to
- TIFR-Osaka University-Durham University collaboration
- Field
- Cosmos & Earth
⚠️ Disputed: the sources disagree.
What was discovered
Detectors placed 2.3 km underground recorded muons produced by neutrinos created by cosmic rays in the atmosphere. It was, together with the East Rand experiment, the first observation of atmospheric neutrinos.
The Reines group at the East Rand mine (South Africa) published its results almost simultaneously; both are regarded as co-discoverers.
What it led to
- physics of atmospheric neutrinos
- deep underground laboratories