The idea for a ‘neutrino laser’ is to take radioactive atoms, which naturally emit neutrinos when they decay, trap them, and cool them down to unimaginably low temperatures, even colder than outer space, until they form what’s called a Bose–Einstein condensate. Know more in this week’s Pure Science with Soumya Pillai
Bose–Einstein condensate: MIT scientists envision laser that shoots beams of neutrinos
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