Team Atomic Milkshake is Ars' entry in the Neutrino Factory Distributed Computing project. The teams first place victory in phase I was a sweet success. Over 1000 Ars members completed at least one particle simulation in phase one of this project. The project goal is to determine the mass of a neutrino if it has one. This project was created by Stephen Brook�s, and his site does a good job at explaining exactly how and why it�s being done.

The experiment is called the Neutrino Factory, scheduled for construction some time around 2015. Its primary aim is to fire beams of neutrinos (fundamental particles) through the Earth's interior to detector stations on different continents. They're doing this to measure whether they change type en route (there are 3 types of neutrino) and data from this in turn will allow them to determine the neutrino's mass (and whether it even has mass).

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Currently the project is in preparation for Phase II.