There’s a neat photo in the January issue of Physics Today that shows just how big the Super Kamiokande neutrino detector is. I’d heard that it was big, and even when I saw the pictures from the shattered PMTs incident, I never realized just how big it was.
There are more pictures that also show just how big SK is. Those are some guys in a raft at the far right of the this image. They’re cleaning the huge PMTs that make up the light detecting system of SK.
Discover more from Imablog
Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email.
Holy Cat that’s big. I mean I knew it was huge but
that picture really puts it into perspective!