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A Tour of the Subatomic Zoo : A Guide to Particle Physics
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Cindy Schwarz, Sheldon Glashow
December 1996

Deep focus on neutrino mystery

22 June, 2000
An underground detector designed to "look" into the heart of the Sun is working well say scientists and may soon solve one of the greatest solar mysteries.

The facility, which has only recently begun work, is trying to pick up neutrinos as they stream through the Earth.

Neutrinos are the ghostly particles that are released when the Sun fuses hydrogen to make helium - the basic nuclear process that provides the energy to drive life on Earth.

Previous observations have only detected about a third of the quantity of the particles predicted by current theory. Finding the missing neutrinos is the task of the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO).

Encyclopedia of Nature/Science Bundle CD-ROMS

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Introduction to Physics

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Amanda Kent et al
January 1984

The Particle Garden : Our Universe As Understood by Particle Physicists

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Gordon Kane, Heather Mimnaugh
July 1996
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The Visual Dictionary of Physics (Eyewitness Visual Dictionaries)

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Jack Challoner
September 1995

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