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Press -Appendix Nelly Ben Hayoun signal to background Sky-wide neutrino search seeks supernovae in Sonic Booooum shakes art world; Neanderthal crashes SNOLAB; China dreams deep; our backyard L’Aquila science center appeals for donations; kids reach out to kids after earthquake; letters March 4, 2010 In order to catch a supernova with a telescope, scientists need to peer in the right direction at the right time. By using machines built for particle physics, however, scientists can scour the entire sky at once.

Deep underground science: new issue of symmetry out today March 3, 2010 The new issue of symmetry features stories about plans for a US deep underground science and engineering laboratory, taking clean equipment to an extreme in the Enriched Xenon Observatory in a salt deposit in New Mexico, the trial faced by the earthquake-stricken Abruzzo region and the Gran Sasso laboratory in Italy, the search for "dark life", and a day in the life of the Soudan underground lab in Minnesota.

Top quark turns 15 today March 2, 2010 March 2, 2010, marks the 15th anniversary of the day that Fermilab announced the discovery of the top quark by the CDF and DZero experiments.

Photo courtesy of Nelly Ben Hayoun Email Update List Receive email notifications of the release of future Hundreds splash through an artist’s neutrino tunnel issues of symmetry: French artist Nelly Ben Hayoun is no stranger to science. Her portfolio of work includes explorations of brain plasticity in snails, a scheme for generating dark NAME subscribe matter in a kitchen sink and a recliner in which people can experience the first 10 minutes of a Russian Soyuz rocket’s liftoff sequence. EMAIL more options

She may have outdone herself with her latest project, though. For Super K Sonic Booooum (top photo), she constructed a flashy version of Japan’s Super- Kamiokande neutrino observatory in London’s Shunt Lounge, a labyrinth of abandoned railway tunnels beneath the London Bridge train station that’s been turned into an underground performance space. Deep underground, physicists set traps to catch dark matter, “I’m really obsessed with large-scale scientific experiments,” Hayoun says. “The neutrinos, rare particle decays, project was born from the idea of giving everyone access to the Super-K and other exotic phenomena. detector.” These protected subterranean lab spaces are highly valued by The installation consisted of a 49-foot-long channel filled with nearly 4000 scientists in a number of fields for gallons of water and lined with 600 balloons representing Super-K’s thousands their isolation and their easy of photomultiplier tubes (left photo). Visitors rowed through two at a time in a access to depths where small dinghy, accompanied by physicists from Imperial College London and geological and microbial Photo: Super-Kamiokande Queen Mary, University of London. Every 10 minutes, loud booms and bright processes help shape the Earth and the nature of flashes of blue light simulated interactions between incoming neutrinos and the life itself. atoms of water—the events that the real Super-K is designed to detect. Illustration: Sandbox Studio.

There was no question about the installation’s popularity. According to physicist Francesca di Lodovico of Queen View Issue PDF Mary, one of the presenters at Super K Sonic Booooum, people lined up for more than an hour to go through the faux observatory. Fifteen hundred attended during an 11-day run in November. “It was really amazing,” she says. Nicholas Bock

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Last November, Nelly Ben Hayoun (designer of The Soyuz Chair) invited the public to join scientists from Imperial College London and Queen Mary University of London for a voyage aboard a dinghy through the seas of particle physics. Not in the real Super-K but in the SHUNT lounge, a night-club buried 10 m under the London Bridge area.

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Called Super K Sonic Booooum, Nelly Ben Hayoun's installation/performance attempted to demonstrate the visual equivalent of one of those massive sonic booms that take place inside Super K each time a neutrino meets an electron of extremely pure water. As ultra-pure water doesn't exactly abound in London clubs, the designer used the water from the nearest fire hydrant and turned the place into a 15 by 5m long swimming pool. Before stepping inside the rubber dinghy, participants were requested to don a pair of white boots, a white coat, a helmet and listen to the security measures: do not touch the machinery, keep your hat on at all time, declare any rocks in the mine.... Five Imperial College London physics researchers, and seven PhD students are currently working on the T2K neutrino oscillation experiment, which uses Super K. Three of them, Professor Dave Wark , Dr Yoshi Uchida and Dr Matthew Malek, jumped on board to guide and inform visitors through the world of particle physics. And all around people, 600 balloons. Inflated one by one.

The balloons inflated at SHUNT represent the 'photomultiplier tubes' which cover the surface of the Super K. Super K Sonic Booooum re-creates the rings of blue light and a massive explosion (designed by sound artist Tim Holden) punctuates the experience every 10 minutes.

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Super K Sonic Booooum aims to make arid, hard-core physics more accessible to the general public, to help them understand the power of elementary particles that are everywhere around us without us ever noticing them. Every night during the performance, 170 people queued to get the neutrino experience.

If you happen to be in London on February 11, at 6 pm, Nelly Ben Hayoun will be giving a talk about Super K. To participate, please register at the AlterFutures group page.

Previously: The Soyuz Chair by Nelly Ben Hayoun and The Cloud Project by Zoe Papadopoulou and Cat Kramer.