How Many Light Years Must a Neutrino Travel for Observable Interactions?

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I calculated the volume of a cylinder's cross section and one light year: 10^-36 m^2 (9.46 x 10^15 m) = 9.46 x 10^-21 m^3 = 9.46 x 10^-15 cm^3.

Then I calculated the number of interactions in that cylinder: 6.02 x 10^23 x 11 (9.46 x 10^-15 cm^3) = 6.626 x 10^10 interactions per light year.

How do I calculate the light years a neutrino would have to travel?

Could someone show me the process?

Thanks!
 
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What happened to the ##10^{-12}## ?
 
BvU said:
What happened to the ##10^{-12}## ?
What 10^−12?
 
Only one in ##10^{12}## neutrinos actually interact. this reduces the ##10^{-36}## to ##10^{-48}##.
Fortunately there are three quarks inside every nucleon ... :smile:
 
BvU said:
Only one in ##10^{12}## neutrinos actually interact. this reduces the ##10^{-36}## to ##10^{-48}##.
Fortunately there are three quarks inside every nucleon ... :smile:
Thanks. I'm still not sure how to calculate the number of light years?
 
You have ##N_A * 11 * 3 * 10^{-48} * 10^{6}## area in 1 cm3. I suppose you want 0.5 cm2 so you need a lot of cm. How many ? Divide one by the other and convert to light-years.

Let me know what comes out and if that's in the right ball-park
 
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