Nature publication IceCube in Antarctica proves 60-year-old physics prediction with high-energy particle from the Universe
In 1960, Nobel Prize winner Sheldon Glashow predicted a process within the Standard Model, the most important model of particle physics. The theory describes the interaction of an antineutrino with an electron producing a new particle. However, no particle accelerator on Earth, not even the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, is able to make this process happen because it requires extremely high particle energy. With (anti)neutrinos from the cosmos, the IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole has now been able to observe such a process for the first time in history and thus confirms this important prediction. “Our universe produces particles with energies that we can never achieve on Earth. ...
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