The mysterious assets of the most vibrant neutrino have ever discovered

In February 2023, The cosmic particle detector in the depths of the Mediterranean has registered the arrival of neutrino with nearly 20 to 30 times more than any other neutrino previously documented. The KM3-230213A brand bears, and the particle had a calculated energy of 220 peetalectronvolts (PEV), much larger than 10 PEV than previously active neutrino. The result was a lot of excitement among physicists, but also raised many questions.

Neutrons are Most molecules are abundant In the universe with the block. It is a type of basic particle, which means that they are not divided into smaller ingredients, and therefore they are very small and light. In fact, it is the lighter particles without the offspring that have a mass. Neutronate also does not have fees (unlike electrons, for example, another type of basic particles, which are negative). As a result, neutrons rarely interact with the other substance; They often pass directly without changing it. In fact, the trillions of neutrons that walk across space has passed through your body since you started reading this article. For this reason, neutrons are sometimes called “ghost molecules”.

For particle physicists, this active neutrino cannot be explained indifferently except in two ways: either km3-230213a evidence of a cosmic process, and no one has never seen before, with the ability to change our understanding of the neutrons; Or it was a disappointing measuring error. The researchers quickly started to work to find out any explanation that was true.

Now there is an answer. A comprehensive study published in the magazine Physical review x Compare KM3-230213A data with databases of information about other ghost particles that have been discovered. After analyzing the available data, scientists believe that this very wonderful neutrino was not a statistical illusion.

But where did he come from?

Just as the rock of the mountain nature cannot describe, 220 PEV Neutrino alone is not useful in explaining the phenomenon that led to this. As the paper acknowledges, with the availability of information, the company’s conclusions cannot “extract the conclusions of whether the observation alludes to a new energy component very high in the spectrum.”

But if there are other records of similar active neutrons, this would make great progress by hinting to the presence of other invisible phenomena before. The study says: “This may mean that we see cosmic neutrons for the first time, which produces when the cosmic rays interacted with the cosmic microwave background, or it may indicate a new type of astronomical physical source.”

Neutrino energy for 2023 also indicates that it was possible to emit one of the strong cosmic wrestlers we realize in the universe: the explosion of the gamma or Supernova rays, or perhaps a relative plane-a radiation from the plasma emitted from a black hole. On the contrary, many neutrons that were discovered on Earth are neutrons in the atmosphere, which are produced by the effect of cosmic rays that hit the atoms in the atmosphere of the Earth, which are less active. They are the same particles, but their potential origins affect their energy.

Various branches for the use of science and the study of neutrons for various reasons. Since neutrons are transmitted across the universe without being formed or absorbed, they can provide valuable information on very distant cosmic events. Some scholars think that they are “correspondents from the universe” who travel, from time to time, to Earth with data that may be lost.

This story was originally appeared on EN Español wireless It was translated from Spanish.