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4. 100,000 ocean hydrophones, or lunar observation
Sun Mar 22, 2015, 12:47 AM
Mar 2015
While the oceans are far too murky for physicists to detect the light given off by the showers, Lacki reckons that the sound of a shower could be detected by a network of hydrophones in the water. However, because these neutrinos are expected to be extremely rare, he calculates that about 100,000 hydrophones would be needed to have a chance of detecting the neutrinos.

Whole of the Moon

Another possibility, albeit less sensitive, is to use the Moon as a neutrino detector. Indeed, the NuMoon experiment is currently using a ground-based radio telescope to try to detect showers created when 10^20 eV neutrinos smash into the lunar surface.

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