What is the Kamiokande experiment used to detect?
Cosmic X-rays
Dark matter
Solar neutrinos
Gravitational waves
Answer
Solar neutrinos are subatomic particles produced in the nuclear fusion reactions that power the Sun. The Kamiokande experiment, a large water tank detector in Japan, is designed to detect these neutrinos. It does this by observing the faint light emitted when a neutrino interacts with a water molecule, producing a flash of light known as Cherenkov radiation.
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