Record making

12/01/06

Fermilab might not have the world's longest fingernails or the world's oldest man, but, according to Guinness World Records 2007, the lab does have the most powerful beam of neutrinos.

Record making

Fermilab might not have the world's longest fingernails or the world's oldest man, but, according to Guinness World Records 2007, the lab does have the most powerful beam of neutrinos.

The Neutrinos at the Main Injector (NuMI) beamline has an output power of 200 kilowatts, firing neutrinos 720 kilometers from Fermilab to a particle detector in a mine in Soudan, Minnesota.

Siri Steiner

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