The proton's innate charm may trouble astronomers - EurekAlert

Can the neutrino eyes of humanity, observatories such as the IceCube in Antarctica, really see neutrinos coming from deep space? The answer is beginning to come from experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) where, amongst others, the internal structure …

image: Charm quarks and antiquarks in protons of atomic nuclei of the Earth's atmospheric gases may produce some of neutrinos recorded by modern neutrino detectors.view more  Credit: Sources: IceCub… [+9820 chars]

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