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  • Neutrino Hunting, part 2

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    David Fox
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    In my previous post, I talked about neutrino detection, and about the Kaggle competition IceCube – Neutrinos in Deep Ice, which challenged participants to reconstruct the direction of neutrinos from data on Cherenkov radiation given off by charged particles created by neutrino interactions in the ice at the South Pole. As I mentioned, the contest…

  • Neutrino Hunting, Part 1

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    David Fox
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    IceCube Competition on Kaggle In early 2023, the IceCube Neutrino Observatory sponsored a competition on Kaggle called IceCube – Neutrinos in Deep Ice. As a former physics and astronomy student, and an on-and-off Kaggle participant, I was intrigued. Neutrino Physics and Astronomy Neutrinos are electrically neutral particles given off by beta decay, as well as…