To develop new, useful materials, we combine them in new ways or make small changes in their molecular structures to modify properties. To learn what we can do takes years of research. But once this foundation is established, we can use it to invent new applications needed by industry. Submitted by DOE's Brookhaven National Laboratory DOE Pulse highlights work being done at the Department of Energy's national laboratories. DOE Pulse is distributed every two weeks.
Experimenters are certainly inventive.
Give them a sandbox and pretty soon they want the moon. Dipole antennas were buried in the sand and microwave antennas were mounted along one side of the sandbox. The technique and the results should help in the observation of energetic neutrino showers using the moon as an emitter. Neutrinos are difficult particles to detect. They have a very small mass, no charge and only weak interactions.