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Sponsored The Independent 2.1M Followers Scientists make major breakthrough in search for 'ghost particles' Story by Andrew Griffin • 10h • 2 min read Low-Res_SNOLAB vessel Low-Res_SNOLAB vessel © SNOLAB Scientists say they have made a major breakthrough in detecting “ghost particles”. The name is given to neutrinos, which are one of the most mysterious particles in the universe and remain largely unknown because they seldom interact with anything else. They come about in nuclear reactions, including those from our Sun. And they surround us at all times, with trillions of them passing through our body in each second. Do You Support Canada Spending $150B on Military? Poll Do You Support Canada Spending $150B on Military? Poll The Epoch Times · Sponsored call to action icon more They leave behind no trace, however, which has meant that they have remained difficult to actually find. Detecting them could help answer questions about the processes behind our Sun and how the universe has evolved – but doing so has proven elusive. Scientists now say however that they have watched them transforming carbon atoms into nitrogen. To do so, they had to build a vast detector underground. That equipment – based in SNOLAB, a Canadian facility in a working mine – allows researchers to shield their detectors from cosmic rays and background radiation that might otherwise overpower the very faint signals from the neutrinos. “Capturing this interaction is an extraordinary achievement,” said Gulliver Milton, a doctoral student at the University of Oxford. “Despite the rarity of the carbon isotope, we were able to observe its interaction with neutrinos, which were born in the Sun’s core and travelled vast distances to reach our detector.” Related video: Why scientists say we’re being pulled toward a mass we can’t even see (Astrum) Current Time 0:00 / Duration 6:45 Astrum Why scientists say we’re being pulled toward a mass we can’t even see 0 View on Watch View on Watch In the new work, researchers watched for carbon-13 nuclei being hit by high-energy neutrinos, and then transforming into radioactive nitrogen-13 that then decays. That process can be observed through the flash from the first collision and then the second flash from the radioactive decay. Researchers watched that happen multiple times during their research, which took place in 2022 and 2023 and is announced today in a new paper. That work, ‘First Evidence of Solar Neutrino Interactions on 13C’, is published in the journal Physical Review Letters. The Independent has always had a global perspective. Built on a firm foundation of superb international reporting and analysis, The Independent now enjoys a reach that was inconceivable when it was launched as an upstart player in the British news industry. For the first time since the end of the Second World War, and across the world, pluralism, reason, a progressive and humanitarian agenda, and internationalism – Independent values – are under threat. Yet we, The Independent, continue to grow. Sponsored The Independent Visit The Independent Strictly’s Katya Jones commends 'magnificent' Lewis Cope after exit Michigan football coach jailed after being fired over relationship Eggs shipped to US restaurants under recall for salmonella threat Sponsored