A view of the soon-to-be-completed Juno in Kaiping, Guangdong province. (Inset) Wang is the chief scientist and project manager of Juno. — Reuters
A GIANT sphere 700m underground with thousands of light-detecting tubes will be sealed in a 12-storey cylindrical pool of water for an experiment that will shine new light on elusive subatomic particles known as neutrinos.
After years of construction, the US$300mil Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (Juno) in China’s southern Guangdong province will start gathering data on neutrinos, a product of nuclear reactions, to help solve one of the biggest mysteries in particle physics.
