CCAPP Fellow Steven Prohira and the radar project he is leading was featured in Physics World on January 28th.

Dr. Prohira, along with an international team of collaborators including OSU Professors James Beatty and Amy Connolly, is helping to figure out a way to detect neutrinos with less than ~100 PeV using radar echoes. "This relies on the fact that a particle cascade moving through a material at near the speed of light will kick out electrons from atoms within the material. In the brief period before those electrons are re-absorbed, they can be made to oscillate by externally applied radio waves. Antennas can then be used to detect the radio waves that are emitted by the oscillating electrons – the “echo”. 

The full article can be found at go.osu.edu/Prohira.

Photo credit: Stephen Hudson