{"id":8686,"date":"2010-06-23T18:51:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-23T18:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2010\/06\/23\/ancient-romans-join-neutrino-hunt\/"},"modified":"2010-06-23T18:51:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-23T18:51:00","slug":"ancient-romans-join-neutrino-hunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2010\/06\/23\/ancient-romans-join-neutrino-hunt\/","title":{"rendered":"Ancient Romans join neutrino hunt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/physicsworld.com\/cws\/article\/news\/42445'>Ancient Romans join neutrino hunt<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"link_description\">\n<blockquote><p>Ever on the look-out for ultra-low radioactive materials to shield  their sensitive experiments, nuclear physicists have struck gold with a  consignment of lead that lay on the floor of the Mediterranean Sea for  2000 years. The almost completely inert ancient lead will be used to  line the CUORE neutrino experiment located under the Gran Sasso mountain  in central Italy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Experiments designed to study extremely rare nuclear processes  must be shielded from all possible sources of radioactive contamination,  which will swamp sensitive detectors with spurious signals. The sources  of interference include cosmic rays from space and radioactivity  naturally present in rocks. But there is also radioactivity in the very  materials used to provide the shielding, such as lead or copper. And it  is here that the ancient lead comes into its own.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>[via <a href=\"http:\/\/kottke.org\/10\/06\/ancient-roman-shipwreck-aids-in-neutrino-search\" target=\"_blank\"><em>kottke<\/em><\/a>]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ancient Romans join neutrino hunt Ever on the look-out for ultra-low radioactive materials to shield their sensitive experiments, nuclear physicists have struck gold with a consignment of lead that lay on the floor of the Mediterranean Sea for 2000 years. The almost completely inert ancient lead will be used to line the CUORE neutrino experiment &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2010\/06\/23\/ancient-romans-join-neutrino-hunt\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ancient Romans join neutrino hunt&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-link"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}