Applications of neutrinos- ghost like particles

      An invisible and almost massless particle could be the building block for some incredible new technology. It’s called the neutrino. Neutrinos have a potential to do amazing things like speed up global communication, detect the presence of nuclear weapons and confirm the presence of dark matter. To know more about neutrinos, you can check out this post too https://imbibephysics5794.blogspot.com/2020/03/what-is-mystery-of-ghost-like-particles.html

1. A way to monitor nuclear proliferation

Neutrinos are produced from radiation, so it might be possible for the International Atomic Energy Agency to use neutrino detectors to monitor which countries are following the treaty on the Non-Proliferation of nuclear weapons. In most nuclear reactors, uranium decays into plutonium. But to male a nuclear weapon, the reactor has to be shut down, the plutonium removed, and replaced with fresh uranium. Nuclear reactors and nuclear bombs release staggering numbers of neutrinos, so international monitors could rely on neutrinos for surveillance and help prevent proliferation.

2. A way to ‘x ray’ the earth to find cavities of mineral and oil deposits

Some scientists have proposed that intense beams of neutrinos could be used to probe the earth’s crust for mineral or oil deposits.

3.  Faster global communication

These particles can pass through pretty much anything & it would be faster to send the message through it across the earth. It would be easy to communicate in submarines. Scientists had encode a message in neutrinos using binary code.

4. A way to detect dark matter

The presence of dark matter has still not been directly observed by scientists. But neutrinos can help in this matter. The Icelab has built a neutrino detector in Antarctica that has detected extremely high energy neutrinos. The scientists built the detector by actually boring holes into the ice. Scientists observed that some neutrinos come from space and are produced from things like supermassive black holes and violent star deaths. These neutrinos might also come from decaying dark matter in nearby galaxies.

5. Communication with extra terrestrial life

Since, it is possible to encode messages in neutrinos, those encoded neutrinos could be beamed into space. They would act as terrific messengers between advanced civilizations across the galaxy.

6. Finding exploding stars

It has been over four centuries since astronomers have seen a supernova in the Milky way. If a star explodes in the far side of the galaxy, neutrinos would come from it unhindered which can be detected by our detectors.

7. Figure out what keeps the earth’s interior warm

Part of our planet’s heat comes from the decay of radioactive elements -but we don’t know exactly what fraction. Since radioactivity also releases neutrinos, measuring them, we can find how much uranium and thorium are there in earth’s curst and mantle.